Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 21, 2005, at 12:58 PM, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i have been looking around for examples of other phd thesis with very little success. any pointers would be most welcome! Have you checked w/ your math/physics/comp-sci department to see if they've a LaTeX template? There're a couple

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: 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! I

Re: latex2rft / tex2rtf problems

2005-11-21 Thread Charles de Miramon
K. Elo wrote: 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: Did you use latex2rtf like that : latex2rtf -a myauxiliaryfile.aux -b

Re: table bold

2005-11-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[Fwd: Towards a UK-TuG revival]

2005-11-21 Thread Herbert Voss
Original Message Subject: Towards a UK-TuG revival Date: 21 Nov 2005 10:59:44 -0800 From: Karl Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: http://groups.google.com Newsgroups: comp.text.tex For any TeX users in the UK -- One of the r\^oles of TUG is to encourage and support the

Re: Convert png to eps automatically

2005-11-21 Thread Gunnar
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller I have just tried it at a different computer, and the it worked without any problem with the 0.4 installer. Thanks! Btw. PDF can directly include jpg, png, and pdf-files. If you use eps-files they must be converted to pdf first. Normally this does

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

2005-11-21 Thread Benjamin Ari Schleimer
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. Doing this after each keystroke is unreasonable. Ummm, well, I thought it was worth asking. Maybe if you

Re: LyX function for German hard S?

2005-11-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Stefano Franchi wrote: 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

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

2005-11-21 Thread Bo Peng
Ummm, well, I thought it was worth asking. Maybe if you ran the conversion in a separate thread and if there's a currently converting process going on, kill that and start again. It might suck up a couple of cycles but the user may not notice it anyway. You can do this by yourself easily by

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Monday 21 November 2005 17:26, Helge Hafting wrote: Sure, people insist on ascii/unicode email with no formatting. I can write justified email in html, but html is usually very unpopular on open-source lists due to all the people using non-html capable mailreaders. That is not the point

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose' Matos wrote: On Monday 21 November 2005 17:26, Helge Hafting wrote: Sure, people insist on ascii/unicode email with no formatting. I can write justified email in html, but html is usually very unpopular on open-source lists due to all the people using non-html capable mailreaders.

Am I shut out because of my windows flavour??

2005-11-21 Thread Brian Lunergan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Evening all: I have been reading the material on LyX136 and I've got a concern over one of the listed bugs. It suggests Win98 and Lyx don't get along. I use Win98se on an 800mhz AMD machine, and do my downloading through a 56k dialup connection. Am I

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Jose' Matos
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 00:10, Angus Leeming wrote: I think that the *real* point is that this is a religious issue. If you write to an email list asking for help yet use html then you are likely to be ignored by those who have taken the religious position that html email is evil. Since

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-21 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 4:10 PM Subject: Re: align left and hyphenation The most coherent reason I've found to justify this religion is that html email totally screws up many mail

A Tool for Building Indexs of Sociology/History/etc/ Texts.

2005-11-21 Thread John C. McCabe-Dansted
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 03:55, 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. ... A book of history, sociology, journalist research,

Re: Am I shut out because of my windows flavour??

2005-11-21 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Tue 22 Nov 2005 00:30:59 GMT, [Brian Lunergan] wrote : \_ Evening all: I have been reading the material on LyX136 and I've got a concern over one of the listed bugs. It suggests Win98 and Lyx don't get along. I use Win98se on an 800mhz AMD machine, and do my downloading through a

Re: Am I shut out because of my windows flavour??

2005-11-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Roy Schestowitz wrote: On Tue 22 Nov 2005 00:30:59 GMT, [Brian Lunergan] wrote: Evening all: I have been reading the material on LyX136 and I've got a concern over one of the listed bugs. It suggests Win98 and Lyx don't get along. I use Win98se on an 800mhz AMD machine, and do my downloading

Re: Abstracts in multiple languages, preface and acknowledgements

2005-11-22 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
On Friday 18 November 2005 16:31, Andreas Kofod-Hansen wrote: 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

titletoc and list of appendices?

2005-11-22 Thread Andrew Morrison
Is it possible to have in a document a list of appendices such that the the top of the table of contents appears like: LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF APPENDICES Where the words are in all caps? I've figured out how to insert the list of tables and list of figures, and that I should

Lyx from the commandline, pdf creation

2005-11-22 Thread Stephen Gross
I'm new to lyx, so please bear with me. I've got a lyx document that I want to turn into a pdf. I know this is easy to do through the graphical interface; is there a way to do it via the commandline? I see that there's a '-x' option for executing a lyx command from the commandline. Can it be

Re: Lyx from the commandline, pdf creation

2005-11-22 Thread Bo Peng
I know this is easy to do through the graphical interface; is there a way to do it via the commandline? lyx --export pdf xxx.lyx lyx --export pdf2 xxx.lyx The first uses latex, the second uses pdflatex. Cheers, Bo

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-22 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyX-Users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Cc: LyX-Devel lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 9:25 AM Subject: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller Hello LyXers, with the help from many people I'm now

Re: Lyx from the commandline, pdf creation

2005-11-22 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Tue 22 Nov 2005 17:15:12 GMT, [Stephen Gross] wrote : \_ I'm new to lyx, so please bear with me. I've got a lyx document that I want to turn into a pdf. I know this is easy to do through the graphical interface; is there a way to do it via the commandline? I see that there's a

tex2pdf (was: Lyx from the commandline, pdf creation)

2005-11-22 Thread Joerg Hau
Hi, On Tuesday 22 November 2005 18:15, Stephen Gross wrote: I've got a lyx document that I want to turn into a pdf. I know this is easy to do through the graphical interface; is there a way to do it via the commandline? Yes. Get Steffen Evers' script 'tex2pdf', it does all you need from the

Re: tex2pdf (was: Lyx from the commandline, pdf creation)

2005-11-22 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Yes. Get Steffen Evers' script 'tex2pdf', it does all you need from the command line - including conversion of hyperlinks, thumbnail generation, etc. In spite of its name, it can deal with LyX _and_ LaTeX. (The script used to be at http://tex2pdf.berlios.de/, but something is wrong with

Re: latex2rft / tex2rtf problems

2005-11-22 Thread K. Elo
Hi, Charles de Miramon wrote on November 21,2005, 20:45: 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: Did you use latex2rtf like that : latex2rtf -a

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-22 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hello uwe i have had a look at your diploma thesis - its looks very nice. is it possible to have a look at the lyx file? (i dont have read permissions) maybe you would even donate it to the wiki - the thesis section is very meager - http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis i have also tried to

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-22 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi william the pdfpages package is indeed very cool. it did just the trick! i am a bit concerned about hacking the coverpage into place using lyx/latex, but if i really must, i am going to need some assistance. i will return with specific questions at a later point - for now i just wanted to

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-22 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 22, 2005, at 3:18 PM, Martin A. Hansen wrote: i am a bit concerned about hacking the coverpage into place using lyx/latex, but if i really must, i am going to need some assistance. i will return with specific questions at a later point - for now i just wanted to find out if the

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-22 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:24:38PM +, Jose' Matos wrote: I find it ironic defending a subject because it is pseudo-WYSIWYG in a lyx list. ;-) Actually, I would suggest that HTML is actually closer in concept to LyX than it is to anything wysiwyg... but please don't take this as support

when to use koma-script?

2005-11-22 Thread Martin A. Hansen
hi all i have been looking around for a fulfilling answer to this, but in vain. i have found no hints in the koma-script documentation intro, the latex companion, the tex faq, the lyx wiki, the lyx-extended-features documentation ... so perhaps somebody with experience using koma-script would

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-22 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
Thanks for help me, Helge! 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. 1) Difficult for index entry without assist. Examples: a) I have in my book: Otto von

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin A. Hansen wrote: i have had a look at your diploma thesis - its looks very nice. is it possible to have a look at the lyx file? (i dont have read permissions) Now you have it. i have also tried to figure why koma-script should be superiour to the standard latex classes. this seems

Index Tips Tricks in LyX.

2005-11-22 Thread John C. McCabe-Dansted
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 03:55, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: 1) Difficult for index entry without assist. Examples: a) I have in my book: Otto von Bismark-Schonhausen I put the cursor at the end of this name, click on Insert Index Entry and get a dialog box with the word

Re: Index Tips Tricks in LyX.

2005-11-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, John C. McCabe-Dansted wrote: a) I have in my book: Otto von Bismark-Schonhausen I put the cursor at the end of this name, click on Insert Index Entry and get a dialog box with the word Schonhausen, then I must add the rest of name without any misspelling each time

Re: wanted: examples of layout details for my thesis

2005-11-22 Thread John C. McCabe-Dansted
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 13:29, Uwe Stöhr wrote: koma-script is superior because you can adjust nearly everything. You need for example the LaTeX-package caption to set the caption font and style - this can be omitted because koma-script allows you to do the same. koma-script supports

Re: when to use koma-script?

2005-11-22 Thread Helge Hafting
Martin A. Hansen wrote: hi all i have been looking around for a fulfilling answer to this, but in vain. i have found no hints in the koma-script documentation intro, the latex companion, the tex faq, the lyx wiki, the lyx-extended-features documentation ... so perhaps somebody with experience

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: So you have to fill in the index entry, but no need to worry about how to write the name. Just paste it. I think that this idea is not a solution well. Sure. It is not a solution, but a way of easing the work with the existing lyx. Getting your index

Newbie here!

2005-11-23 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi! I am completely new to this list, and even newer to LyX. I used to work with LaTeX some years ago, but now I find LyX easier to work with. My goal is to create technical documentation in a consitent manner. We have some CI guidelines I will have to follow, like a bitmap on top and

Re: [announce] fourth release of the LyXWinInstaller

2005-11-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Stephen Harris wrote: I tested tex2lyx on sample.tex which has the author's picture which it displayed. It did not display the pdf test files. error converting to loadable format and something about No information for converting pdf to eps I saw ImageMagick in both Paths (prefix). Nasty! It

Math in OS X

2005-11-23 Thread Alexander Gahr
Can anybody help me it seem that all Math fonts are messes. The only lock god in Latex perview though ghost script but not on screen in Lyx. Please has anybody a solution a cant't type formulas anymore. Or i have to do it blind. I installes used the lastes tex version of the i installer.

Re: when to use koma-script?

2005-11-23 Thread William F. Adams
On Nov 23, 2005, at 2:55 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: Use komascript: * When you want the look koma-script gives. I believe it is tuned for European typography. Correct, esp. as promulgated by Jan Tschichold in his writings (_The Form of the Book_ is wonderful). * whenever you find the

Re: Newbie here!

2005-11-23 Thread Helge Hafting
Bonhôte, André wrote: Hi! I am completely new to this list, and even newer to LyX. I used to work with LaTeX some years ago, but now I find LyX easier to work with. My goal is to create technical documentation in a consitent manner. We have some CI guidelines I will have to follow, like

Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-23 Thread Andrew Morrison
Recently, I switched from using gv and xpdf to read my pdf files produced in lyx. As I was proofing my thesis, I reached a page where the graphics and text would not display in Acrobat Reader (version 7 for linux) but would still display in xpdf. In Acrobat, a window pops up that says a drawing

Re: Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Andrew Morrison wrote: In xpdf, even though the text and graphics displays, the terminal window has several lines of the same error: Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph. You use a bitmap font (Type 3) that makes problems. What is the font you are currently using? In general it is better

Re: Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-23 Thread Sven Schreiber
Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph. Maybe you knew that already, but this seems to be a problem with the embedded font information. Maybe you could use other fonts to work around the problem, for example by switching to one of the Acrobat-standard fonts that don't need to be embedded,

Re: Newbie here!

2005-11-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bonhôte, André wrote: 1 - Is it possible to add a header/footer which is really at the edge of the page? Maybe this is of interest: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/PaperLayout http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tips/paperLayout/paperDistances.png regards Uwe

Re: Newbie here!

2005-11-23 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Wed 23 Nov 2005 13:31:15 GMT, [Helge Hafting] wrote : \_ Bonhôte, André wrote: Hi! I am completely new to this list, and even newer to LyX. I used to work with LaTeX some years ago, but now I find LyX easier to work with. It is easier and often quicker too, i.e. it gives

Re: Newbie here!

2005-11-23 Thread Bonhôte, André
Folks, First, thanks all for your kind help. Here's my short resume: 1 - Is it possible to add a header/footer which is really at the edge of the page? If yes, are there examples around I could steal from? Roy kindly provided a quick and convenient way of doing that. Keyword:

Re: Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-23 Thread Andrew Morrison
On 11/23/05, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morrison wrote: In xpdf, even though the text and graphics displays, the terminal window has several lines of the same error: Error: Bad bounding box in Type 3 glyph. You use a bitmap font (Type 3) that makes problems. What is the

Re: A Tool for Building Indexs of Sociology/History/etc/ Texts.

2005-11-23 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
This isn't integrated in LyX, but is this what you want? https://gna.org/projects/latex-indexbuild/ This generates a comprehensive list of occurrences of each of the names you specify, which is probably what you want for sociology. (For science, I think it is more normal to only add

Re: Index Tips Tricks in LyX.

2005-11-23 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
a) I have in my book: Otto von Bismark-Schonhausen I put the cursor at the end of this name, click on Insert Index Entry and get a dialog box with the word Schonhausen, then I must add the rest of name without any misspelling each time that this name appears. I found that really

Re: align left and hyphenation

2005-11-23 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On a linux system, you typically get all the free documentation with your latex installation. On a debian linux system, see the file /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/tex-refs/makeindex-special-effects.html On other systems, search for this file on the

I can´t get balance columns

2005-11-23 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
Hi, I am writing a book with koma-script with two columns. I want get balance columns at the end of each chapter. I search in Google for it. I put in preamble \usepackage{balance} and, with ERT, \balance and \nobalance in accordance with manual of package. I can´t get that it

I can not get balance columns

2005-11-23 Thread Marcelo Acuÿfffff1a
Hi, I am writing a book with koma-script with two columns. I want get balance columns at the end of each chapter. I search in Google for it. I put in preamble \usepackage{balance} and, with ERT, \balance and \nobalance in accordance with manual of package. I can´t get that it

Re: Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-23 Thread Martin Dietz
My guess is that the font problem does not refer to the text but to text embedded in the graphic. Change this text or leave it out of the picture and check the result. Martin On 11/23/05, Andrew Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/23/05, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew

Re: Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Andrew Morrison wrote: Under Layout--Document had the font set to default. This means that the dfault cm-fonts (computer modern) are used that are bitmap fonts. http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#badFonts Okay...I tried all the suggestions on that page, but had the same results. Also, I tried

No cmr10 with foiltex

2005-11-23 Thread Gunnar
Hi. I'm using LyX 1.3.6 and Windows and I'm having a problem with fonts and foiltex. I write a simple presentation and try to preview the dvi but the dvi file doesn't show the things that I've written. It says (when checking document properties). Making PK font: C:\texmf\miktex\bin\makepk.exe

creating tables with custom alignment of individual cells

2005-11-23 Thread David Soukal
Hello, I am still consistently working on my thesis, spreading the awarness of LyX's greatness along the way... :) yet I've run into another little problem that I was unable to solve easily with at-hands documentation. I am trying to report some data in tables and I have come across the

Re: creating tables with custom alignment of individual cells

2005-11-23 Thread David Soukal
Funny, I just solved the problem by accident and confirmed it by looking on the Internet: 1) the multicolumn option has another meaning, in addition to the meaning implied by its name: the allows *custom* alignment of a cell 2) multicolumn + dcolumn can be combined to solve problem 3) in my

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Richard Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:48 PM Subject: orientation of .eps figures Hi, I have not had this problem in the past, but after some upgrading ... My .eps figures are appearing in PDF

Re: creating tables with custom alignment of individual cells

2005-11-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: David Soukal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LyX mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 6:14 PM Subject: Re: creating tables with custom alignment of individual cells I still welcome any commnents hints tips about using tables in

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Richard Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:48 PM Subject: orientation of .eps figures Hi, I have not had this problem in the past, but after some upgrading ... My .eps figures are appearing in PDF

Re: orientation of .eps figures

2005-11-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: Richard Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 4:48 PM Subject: orientation of .eps figures Hi, I have not had this problem in the past, but after some upgrading ... My .eps figures are appearing in PDF

Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi! Slowly, my old and rusty LaTeX knowledge is coming back. Unfortunately, I stumble over a problem I can't solve using Google. I have a PNG which I have converted to .eps using Photoshop (Mac). I set it as background image using eso-pic and graphicx. Now, everything looks fine, seen

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Bonhôte, André wrote: I have a PNG which I have converted to .eps using Photoshop (Mac). I set it as background image using eso-pic and graphicx. Now, everything looks fine, seen from far. But zooming in, the background image looks like a badly compressed jpeg, like 60% quality. I have tested

bug in change bars patch (lyx 1.3.6)

2005-11-24 Thread Martin A. Hansen
it is possible to offset change bars in a very ugly way. 1) take a piece of text 2) enable change bars 3) delete one word 4) insert a whitespace after the word before the deleted word now, the double whitespace is collapsed by lyx when moving the curser, but at the same time the change bar for

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Martin A. Hansen
INKSCAPE!!! www.inkscape.org i am totally in love with inkscape, which is the coolest application next to lyx. inkscape needs to be mentioned in the wiki and in the lyx docs (which endorses xfig - and xfig is crap compared to inkscape!). ;oP martin On 24/11/05, Angus Leeming [EMAIL

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Angus Leeming
Martin A. Hansen wrote: INKSCAPE!!! www.inkscape.org i am totally in love with inkscape, which is the coolest application next to lyx. inkscape needs to be mentioned in the wiki and in the lyx docs (which endorses xfig - and xfig is crap compared to inkscape!). Oh, xfig is good for some

In which shell does LyX run latex ?

2005-11-24 Thread Jean-Pierre Chrétien
Hello, I have LyX installed on a Debian with two latex distributions: - teTeX-2.0 deb package - TeXLive-2004 I work under tcsh, and set the PATH so that TeXLive bin comes before teTeX binaries. LyX reconfigure finds TeXLive OK, and all worked fine. Recently it appeared that LyX runs teTeX in

Re: bug in change bars patch (lyx 1.3.6)

2005-11-24 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller
Martin A. Hansen: it is possible to offset change bars in a very ugly way. 1) take a piece of text 2) enable change bars 3) delete one word 4) insert a whitespace after the word before the deleted word now, the double whitespace is collapsed by lyx when moving the curser, but at the same

changebars and lineno - minor bug

2005-11-24 Thread Martin A. Hansen
change bars colors line numbers when used together with the lineno package - it shouldnt imho. martin

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi all On Nov 24, 2005, at 1143, Angus Leeming wrote: Why are you surprised? PNG is a bitmap format, so of course things look pixelated if you zoom in. The only real way to solve your problem is to create a vector graphics image. There are some really intuitive svg editors out there...

Re: creating tables with custom alignment of individual cells

2005-11-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
David Soukal wrote: I am trying to report some data in tables and I have come across the following obstacles that I don't know how to solve:... Thanks for any hints pointer! I hope you'll find some useful informations here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables regards Uwe

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Bonhôte, André schrieb: Why are you surprised? PNG is a bitmap format, so of course things look pixelated if you zoom in. The only real way to solve your problem is to create a vector graphics image. There are some really intuitive svg editors out there... The problem is not the

headings in koma script

2005-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
I am trying in koma book to avoid headers (headings) in preface and introduction, but in all the following chapters headers should occur, and with `smallheadings.´ We have tried hard but no success. Could somebody tell us were to add what (in preample?) Wolfgang

headings in koma script

2005-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
this is a follow-up of my previous inquiry. Where should option `smallheadings´ go? I tried this and get an error %% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/. %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing. \documentclass[10pt,smallheadings,ngerman]{scrbook}

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Bonhôte, André
Hi Uwe On Nov 24, 2005, at 1441, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is not the pixelization, rather the bad quality. I have put up some examples here[1]. - Header.png is the png I am using The problem _is_ the pixelation. You will always have bad results when you zoom into a jpg, gif, png etc

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Johan Ingvast
Bonhôte, André wrote: This works fine as long as it is eps. Now, I have converted the eps to a zip-compressed pdf (Photoshop), and replaced the filename. Tadaa! Not working. LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic. I really hope to get this sorted soon, somehow. Can I ask pdflatex to

user defined type-area

2005-11-24 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
In Koma it is not recommended, to change the type-area, But if the publisher requests it, how and where is the type-area in koma script user defined changable? Specifically: 17mm on top, 28 on bottom (that is, bottom NOT 2* top!) We tried (unsuccessfully) the workaround headinclude but would

Any volunteer to test LyX 1.4 in French ?

2005-11-24 Thread Adrien Rebollo
The update of the French translation of the interface for LyX 1.4 has been completed recently. Anyone that could test LyX 1.4 in French and give remarks about the translation is very welcome. You can send your comments by answering to the list or privately. Note that the help files have not

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Thu 24 Nov 2005 14:26:41 GMT, [Bonhôte, André] wrote : \_ Hi Uwe On Nov 24, 2005, at 1441, Uwe Stöhr wrote: The problem is not the pixelization, rather the bad quality. I have put up some examples here[1]. - Header.png is the png I am using The problem _is_ the pixelation.

Re: Quality of figures

2005-11-24 Thread Georg Baum
[André] Just one more question about the background image. Here, and in the doc you sent, too, the picture looks like a badly compressed jpeg, although we feed a nice clean eps. I found no information about this, neither in the graphicx nor in the eso-pic documentation. Do you have

Re: Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-25 Thread Helge Hafting
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:52:45AM -0600, Andrew Morrison wrote: Recently, I switched from using gv and xpdf to read my pdf files produced in lyx. As I was proofing my thesis, I reached a page where the graphics and text would not display in Acrobat Reader (version 7 for linux) but would

Re: creating tables with custom alignment of individual cells

2005-11-25 Thread Helge Hafting
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:57:45PM -0500, David Soukal wrote: Hello, I am still consistently working on my thesis, spreading the awarness of LyX's greatness along the way... :) yet I've run into another little problem that I was unable to solve easily with at-hands documentation. I am

LyX doesn't find Beamer

2005-11-25 Thread Carlos Knauer
Hi. My LyX doesn't find Beamer. But Beamer is on c:\texmf\tex\latex\base. I put a copy of Beamer.cls in the same directory of LyX, but doesn't works. Is there a special file for LyX ? Where can I find it ? Thanks, -- Carlos Fernando Knauer

positioning image

2005-11-25 Thread Adinda Praditya
Hi list,... Is it possible to put image manually instead of lyx's decision? Is there any tips for this purpose? Thanks, Adinda P

Re: LyX doesn't find Beamer

2005-11-25 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Carlos Knauer schrieb: My LyX doesn't find Beamer. But Beamer is on c:\texmf\tex\latex\base. I put a copy of Beamer.cls in the same directory of LyX, but doesn't works. Is there a special file for LyX ? Where can I find it? the beamer-package comes with a file named beamer.layout. Copy it to

Re: positioning image

2005-11-25 Thread Robert Orr
I believe you have two choices to add an image to your LyX doc. 1) you can add an image as a non-float I believe this image appears in the output in the same relative position as it appears in the LyX document. or 2) you can add a image as a float In the case of a float, it means the image

change tracking

2005-11-25 Thread David M Hunter
Hi, Yesterday I applied the tracking changes patch to my Lyx on my Linux box and the tracking works ok with a few caveats. However I work with a colleague who uses word to write documents and he might be convinced to use lyx if tracking were implemented. Is it possible to apply the

Re: change tracking

2005-11-25 Thread Angus Leeming
David M Hunter wrote: Hi, Yesterday I applied the tracking changes patch to my Lyx on my Linux box and the tracking works ok with a few caveats. However I work with a colleague who uses word to write documents and he might be convinced to use lyx if tracking were implemented. Is it

Re: change tracking

2005-11-25 Thread David M Hunter
Angus Leeming wrote: David M Hunter wrote: Hi, Yesterday I applied the tracking changes patch to my Lyx on my Linux box and the tracking works ok with a few caveats. However I work with a colleague who uses word to write documents and he might be convinced to use lyx if tracking were

Re: Acrobat has problems reading parts of my PDF

2005-11-25 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:16:36 +0100 Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:52:45AM -0600, Andrew Morrison wrote: Recently, I switched from using gv and xpdf to read my pdf files produced in lyx. As I was proofing my thesis, I reached a page where the graphics and

Re: positioning image

2005-11-25 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Fri 25 Nov 2005 18:49:35 GMT, [Robert Orr] wrote : \_ --- Adinda Praditya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list,... Is it possible to put image manually instead of lyx's decision? Is there any tips for this purpose? Thanks, Adinda P What you are describing is reminiscent of

Lyx and language depended characters / A Unicode Problem?

2005-11-25 Thread .
Hi, I really like using lyx... but since a couple of months I have a problem. Everytime I try to enter a language depended character, like ö (german o umlaut) or any else. I got following: http://henning.haeske.com/lyx.jpg I have a gentoo distribution, with enabled unicode. But my

Re: Lyx and language depended characters / A Unicode Problem?

2005-11-26 Thread John C. McCabe-Dansted
On Saturday 26 November 2005 18:08, . wrote: Hi, I really like using lyx... but since a couple of months I have a problem. Everytime I try to enter a language depended character, like ö (german o umlaut) or any else. I got following: http://henning.haeske.com/lyx.jpg The LaTeX

Starting Enumerate environments from greater than 1.

2005-11-26 Thread Daniel Watkins
How does one do this? I know the LaTeX is \setcounter{enumi}{26}, but this doesn't work unless this is actually in the Enumerate environment, which results in the output: 1. First item 26. Second item 27. Third item and so on. Is there a way I can start Enumerate from greater than 1. within LyX?

segfault - but why?

2005-11-26 Thread Martin A. Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/lyx-1.3.6/bin$ ./lyx This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (Web2C 7.4.5) The top-level auxiliary file: thesis-0.01.aux The style file: plain.bst Database file #1: 1_home_maasha_thesis_papers.bib Error in latexParagraphs: You should not mix title layouts with normal ones. Error in

How do I get a PDF with TOC ?

2005-11-26 Thread Martin A. Hansen
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bug: bizarre thing happened after editing prefs.

2005-11-26 Thread Martin A. Hansen
I edited prefs to alter print-latex-papersize to a4. then I saved the prefs - and now look what my _english_ document looks like! http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/2005-11-26-145603_1280x1024_scrot.png ? Martin

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