Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, a plugin to PmWiki (which is what wiki.lyx.org uses) can probably do this. Have a look at http://www.wikipublisher.org/wiki/ I forgot to say that I plan to install this plugin at wiki.lyx.org, I just haven't gotten around to it

Re: wiki export to LaTeX or LyX format?

2006-12-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Anyone know of any wiki that can export to LaTeX or LyX format? Anyone use a wiki to generate LaTeX? Actually, a plugin to PmWiki (which is what wiki.lyx.org uses) can probably do this. Have a look at http://www.wikipublisher.org/wiki/ Th

Re: Lyx review on Journal of Statistical Software

2006-12-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Giorgio Corani wrote: Hi, the following paper Reviewer:Andreas Karlsson Title: Scientific Workplace 5.5 and LyX 1.4.2 Published: 2006-10-27 has been published by the Journal of Statistical Software, published by the American Statistical Association. It is fre

More searches on the wiki search page

2006-12-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
The wiki page for searches http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/Search now has some forms to make it easy to also search the users' and the developers' lists for informationa, as well as Hebert Voss' site. cheers /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kt

Wiki change: A "jump box" has been added at the top

2006-12-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
I've just added a so called "jump box" at the top of each wiki page, just above the search box. The "jump box" is a pull-down menu that lists all the pages in the current group, and I hope this will make it quicker to navigate. As usual, things will probably look slightly different in differe

Re: How to get --- instead of ---

2006-12-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Rainer M Krug wrote: I would like to have "---" in a table, i.e. three minuses after each other, but LyX is always changing it to a long dash. How can I prevent this? I haven't tried it, but this could work: -{}-{}- if you put it in a LaTeX box. /Christian --

Re: Export with notes/comments included

2006-12-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: Stefano Franchi schrieb: On 12 Dec, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: > "If you want to be able to switch between printing and not printing your > comments, you could use LyX's comment environment and add the following > code to

Re: Export with notes/comments included

2006-12-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 12 Dec, 2006, at 4:51 AM, Georg Baum wrote: \renewenvironment{comment}{\begingroup\small}{\endgroup} If your example below works like a charm, maybe you could add it as a tip to the wiki? Here's a suggestion for the name of the page

Re: revtex4 inconveniences (tex2lyx, lyx-1.4.3)

2006-12-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's good that you reports these problems, but it'd be even better if you could add them to bugzilla. (Waiting a while for response before adding is of course fine). The risk if you don't add si that they are unfortunately likely to be forgotten :-

Re: revtex4 inconveniences (tex2lyx, lyx-1.4.3)

2006-12-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Jacek M. Holeczek wrote: Hi, I've recently been using "tex2lyx" (lyx-1.4.3) to lyx'ify a revtex4 file. Hi Jacek, It's good that you reports these problems, but it'd be even better if you could add them to bugzilla. (Waiting a while for response before adding is of cours

Re: mini-buffer

2006-12-09 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi Stefano, after i sent my last message i looked again in the ...lyx/doc directory and detected the reference manual. It's just not shown by Help. There i found the command-execute command to access the mini-buffer. BUT, unfortunately this does not work

Re: latowincd closed!!!!!

2006-12-06 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > uwe schrieb: > > > We work continuess on our original aim: the Documentclass for BA-Papers. > > We are interested in every *.layout in order to make LyX attractive for > users. If you think that your layout is now stable enough for production > use, we co

Re: Wiki upload password request

2006-11-07 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, George Fairbanks wrote: > I've created a page for the ACM Sigplan style and would like to upload a > layout. I'd appreciate any comments / edits to that page and would like the > upload password so I can attach the .layout file. > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/AcmSigplan

Re: Can LyX handle large files ?

2006-11-07 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Splitting the document into parts would only be a crutch, since I often > need to manage references to earlier theorems, to equation numbers, > etc.. Umm... as far as I know and remember from writing my thesis, this works just fine for a multi-par

Re: Can LyX handle large files ?

2006-11-07 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So any help is appreciated. But the advice to turn instant preview off > is equivalent to saying "quit LyX". Then you can try: * Use an older version of LyX (1.3.7 ?) * Split your document into several parts hope any of this helps. /Christian PS.

Re: Can LyX handle large files ?

2006-11-06 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > >* You can set LyX to not show pictures within the LyX window > > Is there a way to make all the graphics in a document not appear, without > turning them off one-by-one? This was possible in 1.3.3 at least. Check the preferences or settings or whatev

Re: Can LyX handle large files ?

2006-11-06 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, David A. Case wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > i am writing a math document in LyX and as the document gets longer, it > > takes lyx longer and longer to get started. > > > (I am running XP on a 2.4 GHz with 1024 MB) > > It is certainly possibl

Re: First Relase from latowincd

2006-11-06 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, uwe wrote: > we proudly presents the first Release of our "latowincd" on > > http://latowincd.berlios.de/ > > Latowincd is a CD-iso with all needed Programms to install Latex und Lyx > on a Windows-PC . > > The main aim indeed was to build an Latex-Documentclass. This class

non-free? (Was: LyX package for Debian)

2006-11-06 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Hanns-Albert Kaminzky wrote: > Georg Baum schrieb: > > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > > > Not at all. If you really want 1.3.x use 1.3.7. AFAIK a package for debian > > stable is available at ftp.lyx.org. > > > > > > >qt or xforms? > > > > > > qt is much better. > Hi all

How to create a new wiki page (Was: Help Creating a Wiki Howto)

2006-10-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Stacia Hartleben wrote: > This might be a really dumb question but I can't really find any good > information on the wiki page on how to make new pages Quoting from the welcome page of the wiki :-) http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Welcome In order to create a new pag

Re: lyx 1.4.3 RPM for Mandriva 2006.

2006-10-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > Hi, Christian. > On Wednesday 11 October 2006 17:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ok, so we'll keep the page. I didn't quite understand if you wanted to > > keep the name of the page, or thought it was ok to rename it to 'LyX on > > RPM-based Linux'? (Or

Re: lyx 1.4.3 RPM for Mandriva 2006.

2006-10-11 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 17:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I might have created the page based on Paul's post. The page should > > probably say that LyX is in Fedora Extras (whatever that is). > > > > Is there a point to having a page describing h

Re: lyx 1.4.3 RPM for Mandriva 2006.

2006-10-10 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Paul Smith wrote: > On 10/10/06, Rex Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I managed to create a RPM package of lyx 1.4.3 for Mandriva Linux LE 2006. > > > I followed the guidelines originally posted by Paul Smith and Christian > > > Ridderström in: > > > > > > http://wiki

Re: Upload Password?

2006-10-05 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Amit Aronovitch wrote: > > I've replied to Richard off-list and given him the password. > > > > If anyone else want the password, just send a request on this list! > Please let me know the password too... I've replied to Amit with the password off-list. > p.s. > I take the

Re: Upload Password?

2006-09-21 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Richard Heck wrote: > Can someone let me know the upload password for the wiki? I want to post > some spam. ;-) I've replied to Richard off-list and given him the password. If anyone else want the password, just send a request on this list! /Christian -- Christian Ridder

Please report any wiki problems

2006-09-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
As I've spent some time fiddling with stuff to deal with a spammer, please report any problems you notice on the wiki. I hope nothing has broken, but you never know! cheers /Christian PS. Many thanks to Jürgen for fixing many of that spammers "work" this weekend. -- Christian Ridderström, +4

Re: Weird problem... password related

2006-09-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Oops, wrong list. sorry. /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: New spammer tactic

2006-09-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
oops, wrong list. sorry. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

New password for uploading files to lyx wiki

2006-09-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Someone has been trying to spam wiki.lyx.org by having a script repated upload files... (most likely this is the guy that Juergen was spending a lot of time cleaning up after - thanks for all that work Juergen!). After I while I discovered the uploading was done using our normal upload manager

New spammer tactic

2006-09-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
The spammer has created upload directories and placed .html-files there... /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Weird problem... password related

2006-09-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
If I password protect a page (read/edit/attr) and then edit it, the change is not registered. If I then clear the passwords, it is still not possible to edit the page! What the heck... ? For instance, this page cannot be edited anymore: http://wiki.lyx.org/Playground/TestEdit /Christi

wiki: Passwords added?

2006-09-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Someone has password protected several pages on http://wiki.lyx.org. They are even proteced from being shown... Is there a valid reason for this or is a crazy spammer doing something? Unless I hear something really soon I'll remove the passwords. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768

Re: What lyx commands are available?

2006-09-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Guy Hindell wrote: > Hi there - it's been a long time since I last posted anything here. > > How can I get a list of lyx commands which can be called from macros or passed > via the -x flag? I'm using LyX1.4.2 on windows and linux. The commands are most likely the so called

Re: wiki: FYI, the word "propecia" is now blocked

2006-09-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, José Matos wrote: > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 11:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If there is any legitimate reason why you would want to write "propecia" > > in a page, let me know. (I don't even know what it means...) > > Wikipedia is your friend. ;-) Good point... ne

wiki: FYI, the word "propecia" is now blocked

2006-09-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Someone spammed a page (it's been a while fortunately :-). Anyway, part of the spam used the word "propecia" so I have added that to Site.Blocklist. If there is any legitimate reason why you would want to write "propecia" in a page, let me know. (I don't even know what it means...) /Christian

Re: Designing a book with LyX (link)

2006-08-27 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, José Matos wrote: > Hi all, > I found this link in Linux Weekly News: > Designing a book with LyX - > http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/15/1859251 > > It should be interesting to add to wiki. It is a good promotion of LyX's > abilities. :-) I've si

Re: lyx 1.4.2 for MacOs and songbook!

2006-08-16 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Nicola Arnoldi wrote: I simply followed the instructions on the website. Not more than this. but I found no .layout file or something like that.. Only the two .sty files... Then I don't think you followed these instructions: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Songbook#t

Re: Trying to get two figures horizontally across the page

2006-08-16 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Paul L Daniels wrote: Helge, 1. Insert the float 2. In the float, insert two minipages side by side. They must While this was a more complex setup, it does do what I was seeking. Now I'll just cut-paste for all my other images. I think there is an example of two

Re: lyx 1.4.2 for MacOs and songbook!

2006-08-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, Nicola Arnoldi wrote: I've tried the things you suggest me lot of times. Lyx doesn't find the class and the message "+checking for document class songbook [book]... yes" is not shown. Does it says "no", or is simply not looking? If it isn't looking, I think you haven't g

Re: lyx 1.4.2 for MacOs and songbook!

2006-08-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Nicola Arnoldi wrote: I am almost getting mad while trying to getting your songbook class macro for lyx. Hi Nicola, I take this is the songbook you are talking about http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Songbook (Btw, the style is written Christopher Rath, I've only adap

Idea for meta-search in wiki. Help wanted.

2006-08-10 Thread christian . ridderstrom
I've just had an idea. Today the search bar in the wiki let's you search the wiki for pages containing one or more words. The search result is displayed on a page which for instance looks like this: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyX?n=LyX.LyX&action=search&q=ideas That page again contains th

Re: Making a Poster in Lyx

2006-08-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Micha Feigin wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:28:38 -0500 "Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone used LyX to make a 90cm wide by 120cm poster? I am trying to figure out where to get started. I am using LyX in 1.4.1 on Windows. Thank you. I was using a a0poster l

Re: Help categorizing the wiki pages

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Having set up the system so that you can't edit pages without adding a category to a page, I'll now pack and go off on vacation. That way I'll avoid all the violent protests ;-) So remember to add stuff like [[!PDF]] and what not to the end of the wiki pages. cheers /Christian PS. Don't tag

Help categorizing the wiki pages

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
I would like to ask my fellow LyXers with help categorizing the wiki pages. In all likelyhood most of you are now scratching your heads, wondering if heat stroke finally got me. Fear not, I live in Sweden so it's unlikely. I'll try to explain... Several users have noticed that finding stuff o

Single TOC of all help documents (Was: Merged manuals)

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of the manuals. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged /Christian That is a step in the right direction, thanks. But for my taste i

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 19 July 2006 09:26 am, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Steve Harris sent me this link > > > >> http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html > >Oh. That's only for Microsoft. > >I've been using pdftk

Manuals PDF and merged (was: Merged manuals)

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
The page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#toc1 now has a link to PDF-versions of the normal help documents, as well as a link to a single PDF with most of the help documents (for searching etc). /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.

Re: PLEASE: can someone move the Mac 1.4.2 binary from incoming to the bin directory?

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: Bennett, If you need disk space, send it to me and I can post it on a temporary site. Or make use www.yousendit.com and "email" it to me and I can place it (temporarily?) on the wiki server. cheers /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44

Re: Merged manuals

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of the manuals. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged /Christian The .lyx version was done by Ed Gatzke and included the Introductio

Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Steve Harris sent me this link http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html for working with PDFs. I've added it here http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#PDF-tools so if people on this list know of other tools that are useful for working with PDFs, feel free to add more links to that wiki page

Re: Tgif with lyx as equation editor

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Enrico Forestieri wrote: I am not subscribed to this list and the gmane interface doesn't allow attachments, but if you reply to this mail putting me in CC, I can, in turn, reply to it and can thus attach the above files for everyone interested here. Or you could describ

Merged manuals

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Thanks to Stephen Harris there's now a PDF that's the merger of some of the manuals. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#merged /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Indexing (Was: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released)

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: Which brings me to indexical software. I was impressed with Steve Litt's indexing method ... Hi Steve. Yes, it certainly seems useful. I hope Steve sees this and responds. (Slightly confusing with two Steves here :-) Anyway if he writes up his metho

dvipdfm vs ... (Was: ...)

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: To answer your question, I think that the Pdf FAQ is a good place, I added your text here: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#dvipdfm-vs-pdflatex It's certainly an improvement even if it isn't 100% complete or correct :-) /Christian -- Christian R

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: Yes, easily getting an overview of what's in the help file. Good point. To summarize: * We'd like an overview of what's in all the help files. Perhaps some kind of table of contents for the whole thing. * We'd like to be able to search all the hel

Wiki editors (Was: please consolidate the documentation)

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Angus Leeming wrote: If the editor(s) would also take up the job of maintaining the wiki, that would be even more valuable IMO. The editor(s) can definitely also maintain (guide, be in charge of) the wiki as well. However, if editor(s) prefer I think it's quite doable to

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Angus Leeming wrote: No, you're right. The last editor was Mike Ressler and the last time that he was actively involved was in the middle of 2002... Just out curiosity, who were editors before him? (I thought I'd write it down here) http://wiki.lyx.org/devel/pmwi

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having said that, I think there at least used to be a pretty good reason for why the documentation was split the way it is. So I suggest you raise this question on the development list. best regards /Christian I think the

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: Well, I made the Wiki Entry under Manuals, but the Wiki complained the file was too large to accept = almost 4mb Ok. (It might also fit under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation ) As for the file, could you try using YouSendIt to send it to me? (See

Uploading large files to the wiki

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
The issue of uploading large files to the wiki has popped up a few times recently so I thought I'd explain what the problem is and how we work around it. I've tried to document uploading in general on this page http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading The problem with using the wiki's m

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: I sincerely feel that the tutorial should also be included in a single documentation file consisting of UG, extended etc. the reason for this is that you can then cross-link from the tutorial to the parts of the UG explaining a feature in depth. als

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: and yes - the documentation should be a lyx document so you see for yourself how the lyx formatting is actually done - with the help of notes and cross-references. Agreed while the lyx documentation should contain all the relevant documentation t

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: For people interested in helping with the documentation, please read the links at the bottom of this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Documentation#toc5 Especially look at this page http://wiki.lyx.org/devel/pmwiki.php/Devel/MiscNotes

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-18 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote: Helge Hafting schrieb: On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 01:06:05PM +0200, Sven Schreiber wrote: If you do a lot of searching, consider making a document consisting of User's guide + extended features in one document. Just paste one into the other, perhaps

Re: please consolidate the documentation

2006-07-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Daniel Watkins wrote: I think there is one. At least they have a mailing list. Try sending a mail to their mailing list at lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org That has nothing but automatically sent 'Wiki changes' updates. I unsubscribed a while ago, so it may ahve changed since. T

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Juergen has written the page http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation that explains a bit about how "LyX" is pronounced. We are however missing sound files that examplify how different people, users and develo

Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Hi Juergen has written the page http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Pronunciation that explains a bit about how "LyX" is pronounced. We are however missing sound files that examplify how different people, users and developers, actually pronounce the word. Since the developers are busy on more productive

Improving the wiki (Was: Wiki idea)

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this page points to the answer, what's the question... 42? ;-) I guess the question is "What can we do to make the wiki a bit more transparent?" That is a very good question and one that I'd really appreciate some

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.4.2 is released

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Steve Harris wrote: I think that since pdflatex doesn't use the .eps format this might mean an automatic conversion of any (mixed) eps files to pdflatex compatible formats. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought this was

Re: portable Lyx version: live lyx CD or others?

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, Robin Green wrote: On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:57:10 -0700 "Michael Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, MS Office is installed in all public libraries. However I would like to edit my lyx files in library computer. At home I installed lyx 1.4.2 from scratch to my U-disk, hoping

Indexing... (Was: Minimum HW requirement)

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Steve Litt wrote: By the way, what I did for indexing on "Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist" was to run the LyX file through a shellscript that split it into individual words and performed a unique sort. I came up with less than 1000 words. I then lo

Re: keyboard access to environment selection menu

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sven Schreiber wrote: Paul A. Rubin schrieb: M-p (alt-p) followed by a space opens the environment list. From there, repeatedly typing the same letter cycles through all environment names starting with that letter. Thanks alot Paul! I looked in th

Re: Wiki idea

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: http://jo.irisson.free.fr/bstdatabase/index.php Cheers, Charles Outstanding!  This obviates the need for a wiki page (although perhaps someone should link this site on the wiki, since this could turn into a FAQ). Well,

Recommended hardware for running LyX (Was: Minimum HW requirement)

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
The (somewhat) recent discussion on minimum hardware requirements inspired me to create this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/RecommendedHardware I'm not quite happy with the name yet so that might change if someone comes up with a better name. My thinking is that the page should basicall

Re: Minimum HW requirement

2006-07-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Alex wrote: Dear all, Thank you for the answers to everybody. I don't want to start an avalanche. :) Thanks for the HW examples, and also for the suggestions. I'd just like to say that I could work reasonably well on my phd thesis (250+ A5-pages) using LyX 1.3.x on a l

Wiki: Blocking has been activated for 'ringtone' and 'insurance'

2006-06-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
There has been several cases of spamming on the wiki regarding ringtones and car insurances, so I've activated a recipe that blocks any post (i.e. additions to a page) that contain either 'ringtone' or 'insurance'. This should prevent the spam from actually being added to any of our wiki pages.

Reverse DVI search (Was: Easing the editing/correction of LyX..)

2006-06-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. Me too... I've always wondered if a tabl

Copyrights of material contributed to the wiki (Was: Layout..)

2006-06-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Ok, I think we're reaching some general consensus here. I've tried editing this draft page accordingly, please give me your opinions http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/Copyrights-Draft here, or simply add them to that page. In David's text about default license, I replaced 'XXX' license with 'GP

Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files

2006-06-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: Why can't the original author label his or her contribution as "Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2", or similar. This is fine by me. In fact, I think a lot of the uploaded files contain copyright and license information. Others migh

Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files

2006-06-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, David Neeley wrote: Comments within On 6/12/06, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why can't the original author label his or her contribution as "Licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2", or similar. Layout files are code, so the GPL fits them well

Re: Turning a LyX environment into a LaTeX command

2006-06-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Thanks for sharing this. I'll beat Christian to the punch :-) and suggest putting on the wiki as a tip. PS. Steve, let me know if you need or would like help. /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: How to make home grown layouts much easier

2006-06-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: Hi Steve I forwarded your mail to the developers. (apologies if it's a duplicate) /C Hi all, I have a suggestion to make it much easier for a LyX user to develop home grown layouts. For me, 95% of the development time in making a layout is debugging. W

Re: Turning a LyX environment into a LaTeX command

2006-06-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Thanks for sharing this. I'll beat Christian to the punch :-) and suggest putting on the wiki as a tip. Oh, you're quick :-) Anyway, do you want to know what the most difficult thing with a wiki is? Choosing where to put, or what to call a new page.

1-minute wiki tag tutorial (Was: Layout copyright)

2006-06-13 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Steve Litt wrote: In my case it's 100% the former. I have no problem with revealing my mistakes worldwide, but don't have a lot of time to learn the ins and outs of Wikis. In that case, let me give you the 30-second tutorial... You'll find the result of the tutorial here

Re: Layout copyright; was: Re: Sharing layout files

2006-06-09 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, David Neeley wrote: I've noticed with other wikis that it takes a considerable effort before the average user is "sold" on the concept, enough to go through the learning curve for the various tags. Unfortunately, IIRC wiki tags are just enough different from HTML and other

Re: Lyx gtk&gnome, fonts, encoding and spellcheck

2006-06-09 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry, that I wasn't short, but I felt necessary to discuss these issues in details. It would be nice to have a functioning gtk&gnome spellchecking dialog in LyX. Can I expect it to work if I switch my box completely to unicode? I'm waiting fo

Re: long standing annoyance with tables

2006-06-09 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Oscar López wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Siterer "Leuven, E." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 1. The current line settings 2. A blank tabular (ie no lines set) Given those options I would go with 2. It would require the least number of changes to get what I want. If it is poss

Re: Sharing layout files

2006-06-02 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Maria Gouskova wrote: I think the PmWiki documentation page is very good ( http://wiki.lyx.org/PmWiki/DocumentationIndex That's a good point. There's also a copy at the LyX wiki, which you can always get to through a link at the bottom of the sidebar. However, maybe that

Re: Sharing layout files

2006-06-02 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 30 May 2006, Steve Litt wrote: Ich konne ein bischen LaTex, aber keine Deutsch. Ich supposedlieren :-) Deutsch gelernt auf Hochschule, aber neiiinnn! Ok, that parody didn't come out as well as I'd hoped... Nor did mine :-) Well, I certainly enjoyed your "neiinnn" :-) * P

Re: Sharing layout files

2006-05-30 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 29 May 2006, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 29 May 2006 02:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You ask a very good question, and to be honest I have no idea whatsoever why people aren't sharing their layouts, but here's two gueses: * People feel that their layout isn't "good" enough... Yes

Re: Sharing layout files

2006-05-29 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 29 May 2006, Ingo Klöcker wrote: since on one hand people are all the time asking for layouts for this&that and on the other hand there are surely a lot of people who have already written their own layout files I'm wondering how we could share those layout files. Should we simply add

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-27 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 26 May 2006, Steve Litt wrote: Couldn't an html document do a better job, possibly data driven. wiki? I'm just suggesting that you can use the wiki to create these documents. One lookup is "what you want to do", another is document class, maybe another is command/environment. It c

Re: A debate topic: What can LyX still learn from scientific workplace?

2006-05-25 Thread christian . ridderstrom
Enrique S Gonzalez Di Totto wrote: As a new user, to me clearly the most important feature missing from LyX is the ability to create new document classes with custom enviroments using the LyX GUI. I know adding such a feature must be quite a large undertaking, but writing .layout files or

Re: Nonprintable text in pdf output

2006-05-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Saturday 08 April 2006 09:07 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Steve Litt wrote: Hi Steve I think I understand what you're doing, but would you mind explaining why? best regards /Christian PS. Then I could add what you wrote to some wiki page if you'd like, but only if I c

Re: make a .pdf of part of a document

2006-05-19 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 09:50 pm, Paul A. Rubin wrote: mail.k wrote: Is it possible to make a .pdf of a specific chapter or section of a long document (not the whole document)? regards, eran Method 1: Stick everything except the desired part in commen

Re: all wiki links with respect to CV are stale

2006-05-14 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Sun, 14 May 2006, Martin A. Hansen wrote: Would you mind giving a bit more to go on... eg. like a link to a wiki page with stale links cheers /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Let's get the Lyx Debian pkg back in sync with upstream

2006-05-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Per Olofsson wrote: > > - Is there a DD out in the wild internet willing to sponsor a new Lyx > > package? > > Yes, I'd be willing to sponsor the package. What is a DD? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: LyX 1.4.1 binaries for Debian unstable

2006-04-20 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Charles de Miramon wrote: > Hello, > > The Debian maintainers of LyX are not very active. I have therefore created > unofficial i386 binaries of LyX 1.4.1 for Debian unstable (sid). > > You should add in your /etc/apt/sources.list the following line : > > deb http://lyxonde

Re: lyx and noweb

2006-04-12 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, David Berg wrote: > On 4/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, David Berg wrote: > > >> not go to the LyX Wiki and read how I made that thing work so you > >> > >> > http://www.lyx.org/~jug/lyx/lyxdoc/Extended/node38.html but run into > > >

Re: Triplicate LyX-GrammerChecker pages on the wiki

2006-04-11 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Makeindewrapper ended up here http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX-GC-MakeindexWrapper /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

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