Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-17 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
Now, I am in problem with my publisher. He said, Drop Lyx, take PageMaker!. Bad advice. ;-) If you try - you will find that pagemaker can easily do some things that is hard in lyx. But also the converse - lyx, and sometimes a few latex commands, can do things you'd be hard pressed to

Re: align left and hyphenation - Solved!

2005-11-17 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
How I can get align left and hyphention? \usepackage{ragged2e} At the begin of the document \RaggedRight HTH, Jürgen Thanks! This work Ok. Marcelo - 1GB gratis, Antivirus y Antispam Correo Yahoo!, el mejor correo web

Re: [announce] third beta release of new LyXWin installer

2005-11-17 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I wrote: Shortly after the last version I'm proud to announce the third version (0.3) of the LyXWinInstaller I'm very sorry, I accidently uploaded an old buggy version so that I need to release a new version 0.31:

LyX and Mathematica

2005-11-17 Thread Andrzej Tomaszewski
Hi All! I am asking a question on the list because I could not find anywhere any information about integrating LyX and Mathematica. I am using W2K OS, LyX 1.3.6-1 and Mathematica 4.1. What exactly have I to do in order to be able to use (math-extern mathematica) function? Script configure does

Re: LyX and Mathematica

2005-11-18 Thread Georg Baum
Andrzej Tomaszewski wrote: Hi All! I am asking a question on the list because I could not find anywhere any information about integrating LyX and Mathematica. I am using W2K OS, LyX 1.3.6-1 and Mathematica 4.1. What exactly have I to do in order to be able to use (math-extern

tex2lyx problems

2005-11-18 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Hola, I have a tex document with a lot of mathematical formulae and so on, and I want to convert this to lyx in order to be able to merge in a bigger lyx document I have. The first time I used relyx (or import from latex in lyx), but this only works with very simple latex files and no with

Re: tex2lyx problems

2005-11-18 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 18 November 2005 10:52, Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: Hola, Hola, :-) I have a tex document with a lot of mathematical formulae and so on, and I want to convert this to lyx in order to be able to merge in a bigger lyx document I have. The first time I used relyx (or

RE: LyX and Mathematica

2005-11-18 Thread Andrzej Tomaszewski
Does it mean LyX menu entry does nothing at all, or that it's functionality is (very) limited? If the first is true, what about Maxima support? In the configure script I have found only the entries for Octave and Maple - Maple is a bit too expensive, and Octave is primarily numeric system...

WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

2005-11-18 Thread Stephen Harris
The installation does not work when TL2005 provides the Latex for Windows files using the small installer. The problem is that TexLive2005 doesn't write itself to the Windows Path, I would imagine, because when I started over and first added C:\TexLive2005\bin\win32 to the Win Path, the

RE: LyX and Mathematica

2005-11-18 Thread Georg Baum
Andrzej Tomaszewski wrote: Does it mean LyX menu entry does nothing at all, or that it's functionality is (very) limited? AFAIK it does nothing at all. If the first is true, what about Maxima support? That should work. In the configure script I have found only the entries for Octave and

Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

2005-11-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: So I haven't tested with a pre-existing Miktex install for the Small installer I did this last night, and was able to view the manual as a .dvi and a .pdf (made using dvips / ghostscript). It seemed to work well, though I didn't do much

Spell checking multiple languages?

2005-11-18 Thread Andreas Kofod-Hansen
Hi I have read that it's possible to spell check a multiple language, but the statement that it is possible have never been accompanied by a guide on to how to do it, so this is what I ask now. Regards Andreas P.S. I use Lyx in Windows with Aspell as the spell checker.

Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005

2005-11-18 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: William F. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 5:54 AM Subject: Re: WinLyX Uwe instalerl 31 and TexLive2005 On Nov 18, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Stephen Harris wrote: So I haven't tested with a pre-existing

Re: Spell checking multiple languages?

2005-11-18 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Andreas Kofod-Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 6:16 AM Subject: Spell checking multiple languages? Hi I have read that it's possible to spell check a multiple language, but the statement that it is

Re: tex2lyx problems

2005-11-18 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
Now the script lyx2lyx works with no error messages, so I have a new lyx file supposedly for the 1.3.5 version format. When I open this file with lyx 1.3.5, there are no errors during the import process, but when I compile to pdf, there is a lot of errors. It seems to me that, unfortunately,

Abstracts in multiple languages, preface and acknowledgements

2005-11-18 Thread Andreas Kofod-Hansen
Hi I'm writing my masters thesis in lyx, and as I'm writing the thesis in danish, an abstract in english (as well as one in danish) is required. I have tried using the latex directive selectlanguage to select first English (or more correctly, British) and then Danish, and that has worked ok as

Re: tex2lyx problems

2005-11-18 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 18 November 2005 15:26, Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: Now the script lyx2lyx works with no error messages, so I have a new lyx file supposedly for the 1.3.5 version format. Good. :-) When I open this file with lyx 1.3.5, there are no errors during the import process, but

pointers to descriptions of various document layouts?

2005-11-18 Thread Alexis Huxley
Hi, this isn't a LyX-specific question, but as a LyX user, and seeing how well LyX is orientated to specific document classes, I figured the people here would understand the question or be able to refer me to others places to ask ... I am looking for some descriptions of how certain document

Re: tex2lyx problems

2005-11-18 Thread Georg Baum
Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: Now the script lyx2lyx works with no error messages, so I have a new lyx file supposedly for the 1.3.5 version format. When I open this file with lyx 1.3.5, there are no errors during the import process, but when I compile to pdf, there is a lot of

RE: LyX and Mathematica

2005-11-18 Thread Andrzej Tomaszewski
Thank you, Georg, for your information! I'm afraid my general programming languages education ended on Pascal, later I primarily used program specific languages as Mathematica or Stata. Well, at least I can see what is missing for Mathematica to work... Maybe after finishing my PhD I will

Re: pointers to descriptions of various document layouts?

2005-11-18 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 18, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Alexis Huxley wrote: Hi, this isn't a LyX-specific question, but as a LyX user, and seeing how well LyX is orientated to specific document classes, I figured the people here would understand the question or be able to refer me to others places to ask ... Have you

Removing leading dots in TOC?

2005-11-18 Thread Stefano Franchi
Can anyone explain how to remove the leading dots in the Table of Contents? The section on formatting TOCs in the LaTeX companion (2.3, p.51, 2nd ed.) contains a cryptic reference that went totally over my head. It suggests to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a suitably large number in a

Re: unavailable classes

2005-11-18 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I am trying to use the curriculum vitae class in lyx and it is listed as unavailable. How to I install it or make it available? LyX 1.3.6 comes with the cv example and the cv LyX layout and cv class. On my system, lyx also doesn't see the class: +checking for document class cv [cv]... no

Re: tex2lyx problems

2005-11-18 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 17:27 schrieben Sie: Here it goes the original tex file. Don't you worry is not confidential at all, just for educational purposes. And if you solve the problem, please tell me or tell the forum so all of us can learn from these bugs. It was very easy: You had

subtitle for book?

2005-11-18 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
I see that some layouts like beamer, paper, and others have a subtitle. Is there any subtitle layout for a book? My workaround is to use author or date or use a CTRL-Enter to add to a Author layout. Will this cause problems? If not, I get: Error in latexParagraphs: You should not mix

In-line formulae and inter-lines spacing

2005-11-18 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Sometimes, some in-line equations cause a larger inter-lines spacing around the line where the equation is placed. Is there some way of minimizing this undesirable side effect? Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: tex2lyx problems

2005-11-18 Thread Jose' Matos
On Friday 18 November 2005 17:38, Georg Baum wrote: And if you solve the problem, please tell me or tell the forum so all of us can learn from these bugs. It was very easy: You had the two commands \newcommand {\be} {\begin{equation}} \newcommand {\ee} {\end {equation}} in the

Re: tex2lyx problems

2005-11-18 Thread Georg Baum
Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 19:03 schrieb Jose' Matos: This could/should go in the wiki I have seen this kind of stuff so many times, the problem is that this varies from person. Yes. Any takers? I have no time at the moment. Georg

latex import problem

2005-11-18 Thread Sanda Pavel
hi all, i'm trying to import some latex files into lyx, but lyx plays funny games with me. after import into lyx all the formulas look fine, export works etc, but when i save+close+reopen the lyx file, it is no longer exportable and also information about symbols in the formulas change from

LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-18 Thread Stefano Franchi
My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks. Stefano __ Stefano Franchi Department

image convert problems

2005-11-18 Thread C Beary
Hello, I recently did a complete reinstall of lyx and am having some problems opening my old documents. There were no problems compiling lyx and there were no missing packages. Yet when I open a document, I get the error No information for converting gif to eps. This happens for a number of

Re: image convert problems

2005-11-19 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Sat 19 Nov 2005 04:34:15 GMT, [C Beary] wrote : \_ Hello, I recently did a complete reinstall of lyx and am having some problems opening my old documents. There were no problems compiling lyx and there were no missing packages. Yet when I open a document, I get the error No

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 18:50 schrieb Jeremy C. Reed: I see that some layouts like beamer, paper, and others have a subtitle. Is there any subtitle layout for a book? My workaround is to use author or date or use a CTRL-Enter to add to a Author layout. Will this cause problems? If

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What do you use for a subtitle for a book? komascript book Thanks for the info. I have scrbook (koma-script) from teTeX-texmf-3.0, but don't see it. I did try Titlehead and Extratitle. What layouts do you use? Any example? And pointers to

RE: unavailable classes

2005-11-19 Thread Andreas Kofod-Hansen
I'm using LyX in Windows with the MikTeX package. I chose to install everything when I installed MikTeX, but I'm still missing the CV class. How do I get this class (and the other unavailable classes, and how (and where) do I install them. Thanks Andreas Kofod-Hansen -Original Message-

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Samstag, 19. November 2005 10:00 schrieb Jeremy C. Reed: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What do you use for a subtitle for a book? komascript book Thanks for the info. I have scrbook (koma-script) from teTeX-texmf-3.0, but don't see it. I did try Titlehead and

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-19 Thread Helge Hafting
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 05:12:10PM -0300, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: I don´t know PageMaker or Scribus. I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is reduced for dificult to learn and poor tool for index entry. Lyx has multi-level

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Stefano Franchi wrote: My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks. Stefano Hi, Stefano. The latex command is \ss{}, no?

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
To Angus: Sorry for probably OT question, just beacuse you mentioned it: which key do you refer to as compose key? (is there an equivalent on usual keyboards, or is it something special to some keyboards: mine seems not to have one. Only Ctrl, Alt and Shift). Regards, Nusret --- Angus

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:58:38 -0800 (PST) Nusret BALCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for probably OT question, just beacuse you mentioned it: which key do you refer to as compose key? (is there an equivalent on usual keyboards, or is it something special to some keyboards: mine seems not to

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
I tried Ctrl-., but in text mode Ctrl has no effect, on math mode the message on the status bar is command disabled, whatever that means. Really, I didn't know there is a different Multi-key or a compose key :). Nusret --- John Coppens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 06:58:38

Re: image convert problems

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
C Beary wrote: Yet when I open a document, I get the error No information for converting gif to eps. This happens for a number of different formats. In the text window, I get the message /usr/local/share/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh ERROR Execution of convert failed. What OS and what

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread John Coppens
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 07:25:57 -0800 (PST) Nusret BALCI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried Ctrl-., but in text mode Ctrl has no effect, Sure Ctl has some effect (not alone, but with the other key combined). To type 1/2 as one symbol, try Ctrl-. and then (without Ctrl) 1 and 2 if the 1 appears

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stefano Franchi wrote: My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks. What about this: Copy the following line to the bind you are

Cross-reference accross unrelated files.

2005-11-19 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
I often need to make a reference to an equation (mostly) in another LyX file. Now, I know that it's easy to cross-reference between different files if one is inputed/included inside the other or both inside a master file. However, if I want to cross-reference equations between unrelated texts,

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: What do you use for a subtitle for a book? komascript book Thanks for the info. I have scrbook (koma-script) from teTeX-texmf-3.0, but don't see it. I did try Titlehead and Extratitle. and it

Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread Dimitris B. Kalamaras
Hello all, I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0}\frac{\sin{x}}{x}=1$ Any idea? Thanks in advance,

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
John, Things are getting clearer now: you are right in that ctrl-. has an effect (and yes, I know Ctrl is used with other keys :). I've just typed Ctrl-. and exported the file as latex. It translates to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (backslash-at-dot) Ctrl-.12 therefore doesn't output what you expect in my

Re: subtitle for book?

2005-11-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: It uses same font size though which I also don't want. Jeremy, Highlight the sub-title using the pointy device or the arrow keys, then select Layout-Character and make the font size small, smaller, or smallest. This is what I do on my beamer

Re: Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/19/05, Dimitris B. Kalamaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow

Re: Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Dimitris B. Kalamaras wrote: I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0}\frac{\sin{x}}{x}=1$ Any idea? -

Re: Question about subscripts to limits (inline mode)

2005-11-19 Thread David Soukal
Dimitris B. Kalamaras wrote: Hello all, I wonder if there is a way to have subscripts to limits (in inline mode) written beneath the lim word rather than next to it. I cannot use display mode all the time. I know that LaTeX can do it i.e. $\lim\limits_{x\rightarrow 0}\frac{\sin{x}}{x}=1$ Any

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Nov 19, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: My keyboard is acting strangely again, and I need to use the minibuffer to input accented characters and similia. But I can't remember the function needed to input the German hard-S. Can anyone help? Thanks. What about

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

2005-11-19 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index} at the beginning of the index. I added a \newpage{} immediately before (without it said the Index was on previous page, 57) and used that \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Index}. Replying to myself ... for the

OSX and PDF latex

2005-11-19 Thread Alexander Gahr
Dear all, I installed lyx from the scartch and I'm wondering which converter Lyx uses if i choose view pdflatex. I get a pdf document but in the information the source of the document is .dvi. Is it posible that lyx on Mac dos not use pdflatex ? How can i finde out? Thanx Alex

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread chr
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Nusret BALCI wrote: I use windows, and I suspect now there isn't a compose key functionality available on windows for standard keyboards (If I understand correctly what a compose key does). As far as I know, there is no such thing as a compose key on windows, sorry. In

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
Christian, the key combination you mentioned doesn't work (for me not a big deal, though: there are several other convenient ways to enter scharfes s), but I wonder why you thought this would do: What's the magic behind Alt-2-2-3? Thank you. Nusret --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 19 Nov

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Jose' Matos
On Saturday 19 November 2005 21:09, Nusret BALCI wrote: Christian, the key combination you mentioned doesn't work (for me not a big deal, though: there are several other convenient ways to enter scharfes s), but I wonder why you thought this would do: What's the magic behind Alt-2-2-3?

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nusret BALCI wrote: Christian, the key combination you mentioned doesn't work (for me not a big deal, though: there are several other convenient ways to enter scharfes s), but I wonder why you thought this would do: What's the magic behind Alt-2-2-3? Alt-number inserts the character with the

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
I see, you're right. In fact, Christian is right: But I had to type Alt-2-2-5 like Uwe(not 3: 3 gives nothing on my PC, so I thought his suggestion is a curious but nonworking strategy. I was obviously wrong and he was right). Thank you all for clarifying this, it is a useful bit of information.

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Stefano Franchi wrote: I still don't understand why I can get ß in the minibuffer (with, on my Mac, option-s) and not in the main window, but I can live in blissful ignorance for now. Because we leave it to the Qt toolkit to interpret your key presses when in the minibuffer and then deal with

Re: LyX function for EURO-sign?

2005-11-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Angus Leeming wrote: I still don't understand why I can get ß in the minibuffer (with, on my Mac, option-s) and not in the main window, but I can live in blissful ignorance for now. Because we leave it to the Qt toolkit to interpret your key presses when in the minibuffer and then deal with

custom layout resources for common environments

2005-11-19 Thread Nusret BALCI
Hi everybody, Is there a place or does anybody know a good site for custom layouts which can be used with LyX? For example, there is no theorem, corollary, proof, exercise, exam question, multiple choice test question, etc. layouts available by default. Of course this is a relatively side issue as

Re: OSX and PDF latex

2005-11-19 Thread Bennett Helm
On Nov 19, 2005, at 3:25 PM, Alexander Gahr wrote: Dear all, I installed lyx from the scartch and I'm wondering which converter Lyx uses if i choose view pdflatex. I get a pdf document but in the information the source of the document is .dvi. I don't follow this: where does it say .dvi?

Re: custom layout resources for common environments

2005-11-19 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Sun 20 Nov 2005 01:08:02 GMT, [Nusret BALCI] wrote : \_ Hi everybody, Is there a place or does anybody know a good site for custom layouts which can be used with LyX? For example, there is no theorem, corollary, proof, exercise, exam question, multiple choice test question, etc.

Re: latex import problem

2005-11-19 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Fri 18 Nov 2005 19:38:34 GMT, [Sanda Pavel] wrote : \_ hi all, i'm trying to import some latex files into lyx, but lyx plays funny games with me. My personal experience has shown that import of LaTeX into LyX suffers from a few incompatibilities (or gaps), especially when

Re: In-line formulae and inter-lines spacing

2005-11-19 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Fri 18 Nov 2005 17:54:59 GMT, [Paul Smith] wrote : \_ Dear All Sometimes, some in-line equations cause a larger inter-lines spacing around the line where the equation is placed. Is there some way of minimizing this undesirable side effect? Thanks in advance, Paul I know

Re: custom layout resources for common environments

2005-11-20 Thread Nusret BALCI
Thanks Roy. Sure I'll look at the examples, etc. I just didn't want to reinvent the wheel: if people already did create layout files for such stuff, I could happily use them though :). Well, to put it more precisely, what I meant was, in fact, the rendering on the screen of the document (by

Re: In-line formulae and inter-lines spacing

2005-11-20 Thread Paul Smith
On 11/20/05, Roy Schestowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes, some in-line equations cause a larger inter-lines spacing around the line where the equation is placed. Is there some way of minimizing this undesirable side effect? I know exactly what you mean, but what solution can ever

Re: latex import problem

2005-11-20 Thread Sanda Pavel
the input file all that well. You must not rely on assumptions that con- version in both ways (namely LyX - LaTeX) is non-lossy. If you collabo- i expected that the conversion wont be identical. what

Re: latex import problem

2005-11-20 Thread Nusret BALCI
Sanda, Did you try tex2lyx? It may give you better results. See http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx for available versions. Just an idea... Regards, Nusret --- Sanda Pavel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the input file all that well. You must not rely on assumptions that con-

Re: custom layout resources for common environments

2005-11-20 Thread chr
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Roy Schestowitz wrote: _/ On Sun 20 Nov 2005 01:08:02 GMT, [Nusret BALCI] wrote : \_ Hi everybody, Is there a place or does anybody know a good site for custom layouts which can be used with LyX? For example, there is no theorem, corollary, proof,

Re: custom layout resources for common environments

2005-11-20 Thread Jose' Matos
On Sunday 20 November 2005 11:16, Nusret BALCI wrote: In the past I used Sientific Workplace writing my M.S. thesis (and I will use, hopefully, LyX in for my PhD thesis :). They used a similar layout dropdown box, but it had some of the options I mentioned. For example, if you select the

Re: custom layout resources for common environments

2005-11-20 Thread Nusret BALCI
Yes, you're right. I noticed that just a couple of minutes ago. My document uses standard book class + some stuff in preamble, but I guess I can copy them by modifying layout file for book class, or better creating a hybrid layout. It doesn't seem so hard now. Thank you all. Regards, Nusret

Re: latex import problem

2005-11-20 Thread Sanda Pavel
Did you try tex2lyx? It may give you better results. See http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx for available that produces lyx, which cant be corectly displayed by the older version then lyx 1.4 (which is not yet :) compiling devel release is not easy for my configuration now, so i will wait

Re: latex import problem

2005-11-20 Thread Jose' Matos
On Sunday 20 November 2005 14:47, Sanda Pavel wrote: Did you try tex2lyx? It may give you better results. See http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx for available that produces lyx, which cant be corectly displayed by the older version then lyx 1.4 (which is not yet :) compiling devel

Re: latex import problem

2005-11-20 Thread Nusret BALCI
Actually, that page contains links to backports. from the page: ** tex2lyx will be part of the upcoming 1.4 release of LyX. This page page describes its use with older LyXes (such as the current stable release, LyX 1.3.x) and provides some ready-to-use

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-20 Thread Stefano Franchi
However, in the main LyX window, we need to interpret each and every key press and so must generate the std::string from these key presses. We can't leave things to Qt. Our own, home grown key handling code is less sophisticated than Qt's, but crucially for us, we have total control over it to

Re: latex import problem

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Sanda Pavel wrote: Did you try tex2lyx? It may give you better results. See http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx for available that produces lyx, which cant be corectly displayed by the older version then lyx 1.4 (which is not yet :) compiling devel release is not easy for my configuration

Re: tex2lyx problems

2005-11-21 Thread Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez
It works perfectly now. Thanks ! Am Freitag, 18. November 2005 17:27 schrieben Sie: Here it goes the original tex file. Don't you worry is not confidential at all, just for educational purposes. And if you solve the problem, please tell me or tell the forum so all of us can learn from

latex2rft / tex2rtf problems

2005-11-21 Thread K. Elo
Hi, I have to convert a long article with a bibtex bibliography into the rtf-format. I have installed both latex2rtf and tex2rtf, but I just cannot get it working. The problems are: Latex2rtf: the conversion goes through, but I cannot open the resulting file with any editor (OOo, Abiword

full list of supported tex/latex/AMS latex commands?

2005-11-21 Thread Nusret BALCI
Hi, Is there a full chart of *all* officially supported (in the sense that LyX can handle and render them without resorting to ERTs) commands available somewhere? (or all not available, especially for all official latex packages by Latex2 team and for AMS packages). If not, could someone involved

Math in OS X

2005-11-21 Thread Alexander Gahr
Dear all, i have another problem with Lyx again. When im entering in Math Mode \approx there in Lyx there is written in blue 1/4 and if i type \pm there is a paragraph sign. In Mathpreview it look alright again and in the pdf. What's wrong?

Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Benjamin Ari Schleimer
Hi After looking at lyx and going through the tutorial, I thought it was a pretty good idea. However, I do have some problems with it. The preview buttons don't give as feedback as a pure WYSIWYG editor. Maybe having an view (kpdf or kdvi) instantous updated after every edit would be a good idea.

Re: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Andres Becerra Sandoval
Hello, LyX is no WYSIWYG , is WYSIWYM, the M standing for Mean. In order to do a quickly update you can use the keyboard. For instance S+Ctrl+D updates the dvi output in my machine check you menu for the accelerator On 11/21/05, Benjamin Ari Schleimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi After looking

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is reduced for difficult to learn and poor tool for index entry. Lyx has multi-level index entries. The question becomes - what is the problem? We who don't do history/sociology can't

RE: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Benjamin Ari Schleimer
LyX is no WYSIWYG , is WYSIWYM, the M standing for Mean. In order to do a quickly update you can use the keyboard. For instance S+Ctrl+D updates the dvi output in my machine check you menu for the accelerator Yeah, I know there's a shortcut for it. That's besides the point. I'm talking about

LyX and listings: code is double-spaced when I use copy/paste?

2005-11-21 Thread Joerg Hau
Dear All, I have a weird problem formatting source code ... using listings and LyX 1.3.6 on a (no ... several ;-) Linux systemS. If I use the \lstinputlisting directive (i.e. importing a file directly), everything works as intended. Fine. If I take the same code and copy/paste it in a piece

Re: LyX and listings: code is double-spaced when I use copy/paste?

2005-11-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Joerg Hau wrote: If I take the same code and copy/paste it in a piece of ERT containing the \begin{lstlisting}...\end{lstlisting} brackets, the whole code is displayed double-spaced. Example below. Oops?! Anyone knows how to work around this problem? Joerg, Yup. It

Re: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Bo Peng
Yeah, I know there's a shortcut for it. That's besides the point. I'm talking about the internal satification and confidence that comes from making a change and have it Immediantly reflected back to you without having to use an intermediate like another shortcut. Considering the number of

Re: full list of supported tex/latex/AMS latex commands?

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Nusret BALCI wrote: Hi, Is there a full chart of *all* officially supported (in the sense that LyX can handle and render them without resorting to ERTs) commands available somewhere? (or all not available, especially for all official latex packages by Latex2 team and for AMS packages). I

Re: full list of supported tex/latex/AMS latex commands?

2005-11-21 Thread Nusret BALCI
Thank you, enough to keep me busy quite a while :). Regards, Nusret --- Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nusret BALCI wrote: Hi, Is there a full chart of *all* officially supported (in the sense that LyX can handle and render them without resorting to ERTs) commands available

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Helge Hafting
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:55:37AM -0300, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: I think that Lyx is very good for mathematics but for history, sociology, etc. advantage is reduced for difficult to learn and poor tool for index entry. Lyx has multi-level index entries. The question

[announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers, with the help from many people I'm now able to present the new version 0.4 of the LyX installer for Windows. You can download it from http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=8085 The sources are at

Re: Minor request - add a feature which provides more instant feedback.

2005-11-21 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: . If you know how lyx operates, you will know how costly it is to have full auto update. This process involves exporting lyx to latex, running latex or pdflaex or ps2pdf etc, and a viewer. Moreover, the typography is provided by global optimization program

Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Gunnar
Hi. I'm trying to setup a perfect LyX environment in MS windows for users that is not very used to LyX/LaTeX. The problem I have right now is that they make drawings in MS paint. The question: is there any way to make LyX convert png/gif pictures to eps automatically? They display the pictures

wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi all it is time for me to type up my phd thesis. lyx is the choice, and now i am spending a couple of days to figure out how to make the layout. 1) i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! 2) the title page is

Re: Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Georg Baum
Gunnar wrote: Hi. I'm trying to setup a perfect LyX environment in MS windows for users that is not very used to LyX/LaTeX. The problem I have right now is that they make drawings in MS paint. The question: is there any way to make LyX convert png/gif pictures to eps automatically? They

Re: Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Gunnar wrote: I'm trying to setup a perfect LyX environment in MS windows for users that is not very used to LyX/LaTeX. Have you tried the brand new installer?: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller The problem I have right now is that they make drawings in MS paint. The question: is

table bold

2005-11-21 Thread liliann
Hi! Does anyone know, if it is possible to get the word Table/Figure in table and figure headings bold? I'm using the report layout and the option InsertFloatstable/figure to place tables and figures into the text. The word Table/Figure is created automaticly in the regular style, can I

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