widows and orphans

2001-04-28 Thread Christopher Jones
I have been trying Herbert Voss's solution for widow and orphan control (http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/layouts/widows.html). I tried the first solution, and I tried the second as an addition to the first, which is what I understood I was supposed to do if the first didn't work. The fir

Re: thoughts on the LyX gui.

2001-04-27 Thread Christopher Jones
Is that what a troll is! I always wondered what people were talking about when they complained about them. Thanks for the heads up on the menus being configurable--probably an obvious thing that I have never had the occasion to need, and therefore to know about. But I perhaps should have omitte

thoughts on the LyX gui.

2001-04-27 Thread Christopher Jones
Since there has been some discussion of incorporation of Python into LyX, let me say that I think this is something like what I wanted when I posted that strange request some time ago (I don't remember how I put it: I think I talked about having the ability to integrate other applications' guis in

Re: Layout things (humaniora)

2001-04-25 Thread Christopher Jones
Have a look at jurabib: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jberger/ for the footnotes. You will find that it handles citations in footnotes in a relatively flexible way. You can also download the bst file jachicago, which is a modification of achicago.bst made to work with the jurabib.sty file. > >>

Re: screen font

2001-04-23 Thread Christopher Jones
Edit->Preferences->Screen Fonts On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, you wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently installed RH6.2 and Lyx1.1.6fix1 on an old Compaq > laptop. Lyx's on-screen font is very strange (looks like a combination > or westminster and playbill fonts in Word2000) and is very hard on the > eyes

Re: fancyhdr versus koma-script

2001-04-23 Thread Christopher Jones
Does putting a font command in one of \fancyhead{} or \fancyfoot{} not do what you need? For instance, the docs tell you to do \fancyhead{\bfseries blahblah}. It seems to me you could use any other font selection command just as well. On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, you wrote: > > Hi! > I'm writing in book

Re: I get only partial dvi/ps output

2001-04-20 Thread Christopher Jones
Darnit! I -always- leave off that brace, and I always have to correct it. But in the past it has always generated an error. I wonder why it didn't this time? Thanks for your help. On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, you wrote: > Herbert Voss wrote: > > > appearances we sense. \attrib{\cite[164]{ag}. > >

Re: I get only partial dvi/ps output

2001-04-20 Thread Christopher Jones
27;t work either. On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, you wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:04:28 -0500 wrote Christopher Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > For some reason I cannot generate complete output for one document > > in particular. If I print to file, view postscript or dvi, expor

I get only partial dvi/ps output

2001-04-19 Thread Christopher Jones
For some reason I cannot generate complete output for one document in particular. If I print to file, view postscript or dvi, export to postscript or dvi, the displayed output stops at page four. If I view pdf or pdflatex, gs comes up, stopped at page four. If I view html, I get the complete docum

List of fonts in Document popup

2001-04-15 Thread Christopher Jones
I found something in the archives from someone who wanted to know where LyX gets the list of fonts that shows up in the Document popup. The answer was, well, typical of this list ;-) -- namely, 'you don't want more fonts there-- load them by hand from the preamble'. Now, I don't want -every- font

Re: \vspace in multicols{}

2001-04-13 Thread Christopher Jones
Couple of things: in the paragraph dialogue, you can set vfill above and below, and you can "keep" it. Try playing around with this. Also, the multicol package tries to adjust stuff to fill the whole column. If you specify \raggedcolumns then you can override this behavior and specify your own pu

Re: RTF: changing linespacing for a single paragraph

2001-04-07 Thread Christopher Jones
Hey, never mind. I found the setspace package.

RTF: changing linespacing for a single paragraph

2001-04-07 Thread Christopher Jones
I have two inputted files in my document, I need their contents to be doublespaced rather than single spaced, which is the document default. I tried a couple of things, searched around Herbert Voss's site and the LyX help, but didn't find the answer. Tried telling LyX not to typeset the file, wh

Re: Section symbol (was "misc. bib questions")

2001-04-05 Thread Christopher Jones
Thanks. That's exactly what I needed. On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, you wrote: > Christopher Jones wrote: > > > > I recently asked how I can get a section symbol (that funny doubled-up > > 's'-looking thing) into a bibtex database. I should have made my question a bit

Re: Section symbol (was "misc. bib questions")

2001-04-05 Thread Christopher Jones
Sorry. Linux (Mandrake). On Thu, 05 Apr 2001, you wrote: > Christopher Jones writes: > > I recently asked how I can get a section symbol (that funny doubled-up > 's'-looking thing) into a bibtex database. I should have made my question a bit > more general than

Section symbol (was "misc. bib questions")

2001-04-05 Thread Christopher Jones
I recently asked how I can get a section symbol (that funny doubled-up 's'-looking thing) into a bibtex database. I should have made my question a bit more general than that. Problem is, I just don't know how to get that symbol -anywhere-. The answer to my question was, "Maybe using latin1 input

Re: Lyx and QNX

2001-04-04 Thread Christopher Jones
Isn't it the case that the next version of LyX will have the option to compile with other toolkits, such as GTK? This might solve your problem, but you will have to wait a bit.

Re: Where to download teTeX - 1.07

2001-04-01 Thread Christopher Jones
That means that it is not in your "path", the list of directories where Linux looks for the programs you run at the command line, or it is still not installed. I notice that in the list of stuff you installed, there is no LyX. Did you install LyX? On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, you wrote: > On Saturday 31

Re: Where to download teTeX - 1.07

2001-03-31 Thread Christopher Jones
That file should be on your cd. I am using mdk 7.1, and the file is simply tetex-blahblah.rpm. Do a 'ls *tetex*' to see all the tetex rpms. If for some reason it really isn't on your cd, (and its not on the other cd either) then you can go a couple of places. Lots of ftp sites mirror sunsite: ftp

Re: misc. bib questions

2001-03-28 Thread Christopher Jones
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote: > >>From: Christopher Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: LyX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>Subject: misc. bib questions > >>Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:56:16 -0600 > >> > >>1) How do I make section symbols in

misc. bib questions

2001-03-27 Thread Christopher Jones
1) How do I make section symbols in a title entry? 2) How do I 'include' one bib file into another?

Re: Problems with paperformat uslegal

2001-03-26 Thread Christopher Jones
I noticed that too. But in the confusing mess of problems I have been sorting through, I never looked into it. Oh well. I guess this is good enough for now. On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, you wrote: > Christopher Jones wrote: > > > > Well... I guess I got it figured out afterall. I

Re: Cleaning up (was multicols and tabbing)

2001-03-25 Thread Christopher Jones
actly I did to fix that. Anyway, here's the example file just for the heck of it. Maybe you know why I have to put gv into portrait in order to see the whole thing. On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, you wrote: > Christopher Jones wrote: > > > > Works like a charm. Thanks again. > >

Cleaning up (was multicols and tabbing)

2001-03-24 Thread Christopher Jones
, nor does it happen when I use letter size, in any orientation, or Legal in portrait orientation. So. The problem is exclusively with USLegal, landscape orientation. What is the problem? > > Christopher Jones wrote: > > > > Thanks so much! Since I sent that post, I had come up

Re: multicols and tabbing

2001-03-23 Thread Christopher Jones
wrote: > > Christopher Jones wrote: > > > > Thanks to Herr Voss for the tabbing example file. And thanks to everyone for > > your suggestions. > > > > I decieded to go with latex tabbing. This introduces a problem which seems to > > derive from my use of an

multicols and tabbing

2001-03-23 Thread Christopher Jones
Thanks to Herr Voss for the tabbing example file. And thanks to everyone for your suggestions. I decieded to go with latex tabbing. This introduces a problem which seems to derive from my use of another package, namely the multicols package. My document needs to be trifold, three columns. Hence

I need 'tabs' effect from LyX

2001-03-22 Thread Christopher Jones
I need to make paragraphs appear thusly: Q. XX blah blah blah A. blah blah blah Q. XX blah blah blah A. blah blah blah ... It's something like a dialogue, where each paragraph has some preceeding mark, like in enumerate. So I need an environment the achieves the same effect as what t

Re: Helvetica.sty?

2001-02-15 Thread Christopher Jones
> Aside from the good practical advice other people have offered, I would > also suggest that you chew their ears a bit. > As an aside, I was looking at the website of a local university in one > of those "Maybe I should apply for a better-paid job" moods. The > application form was a downloa

Re: spellchecker feature suggestion

2001-02-15 Thread Christopher Jones
> Yes, I second this suggestion. It is definitely desirable that we be able to > maintain our word lists easily to handle situations like this. Well then! While I'm on such a roll, "undo last" would be a nice one too. But I'm guessing that if there are plans to add the "correct all" feature,

Re: spellchecker feature suggestion

2001-02-14 Thread Christopher Jones
wrote: > > robin wrote: > > > Christopher Jones wrote: > > > > When I spell a word wrong, I tend to spell it consistently wrong. A > > > > 'correct all' feature in the spellchecker would be nice. > > > > > > But dangerous ;-) > &g

Re: spellchecker feature suggestion

2001-02-14 Thread Christopher Jones
you wrote: > robin wrote: > > > > Christopher Jones wrote: > > > > > > When I spell a word wrong, I tend to spell it consistently wrong. A 'correct > > > all' feature in the spellchecker would be nice. > > > > But dangerous ;-) > > why? > > Herbert > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://perce.de/lyx/

spellchecker feature suggestion

2001-02-13 Thread Christopher Jones
When I spell a word wrong, I tend to spell it consistently wrong. A 'correct all' feature in the spellchecker would be nice.

Re: Specifying explicit point sizes

2001-02-13 Thread Christopher Jones
When I was home for break over Christmas, I was forced to use MSWord. It was precisely the way it handled font sizes that had me all frustrated. > - Part of the beauty and new paradigm (WYSIWYM) of LyX is precisely that it > - does not bother the user with exact type sizes etc. Just went throug

Once more, frankenstein

2001-02-03 Thread Christopher Jones
I need to cite things in a manuscript style. Thus, a work which gets full citation appears in the References section or in a footnote, but needs to be cited in the text with an abbreviation, like this: "(AG 245)". No comma. And I need the following possibility as well: "(AG 245; G 34)". Now, I cou

Re: feature suggestion -- extending LyX interface

2001-01-30 Thread Christopher Jones
about it, but when I am tired... On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, you wrote: > Christopher Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [virtual desktops provided by window manager] > > > Yes, that would be a variation on what I do now. But my idea was > > applications that would 'foll

frankenstein

2001-01-30 Thread Christopher Jones
Hey, in case anyone knows the frankenstein package... I have a question or two. I'm trying to figure out the bibstyle-- 1) @inbook and @incollection have crossreffs to an @book entry. The two entries (@inbook/incollection and @book) both should appear in the References list, seperately, even thou

feature suggestion -- extending LyX interface

2001-01-30 Thread Christopher Jones
This is perhaps a stretch. But a while back I asked if there were plans to support having documents open in multiple panes (I'm excited about this feature!). It occurs to me that perhaps the same feature could be extended to include showing another application in a pane? Something like the docked

Deutsche LyX-Userliste

2001-01-30 Thread Christopher Jones
Weil dieser Discussion auf Deutsch ist, kann ich nicht viel verstehen. Aber ich verstehe genug. Ich habe viel hilfe vom die Deutscher gehabt: zum Beispiel, Herr Voss. Wenn ein Deutsche Liste bekommen, dann vieliecht wir haben das nicht? Auch glaube ich, dieser Discussion ist wichtig die Englisch

Re: Desktop icon

2001-01-29 Thread Christopher Jones
Launchers and stuff are handled in several different ways by the several different window managers out there. Both Gnome and KDE provide easy ways to set these up, and you can tell them to use the LyX icon provided. For window manager that don't provide launchers, less elegant solutions include

Re: BibTeX problem

2001-01-26 Thread Christopher Jones
Just making sure-- the item you are crossrefing must appear -after- the crossrefing entry in your database file. Thus: your @book must appear after your @inbook. On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, you wrote: > I think I am doing a stupid error in my bibtex files. > I cannot use crossref. Both from within Lyx

Re: CD-Inlets and Covers

2001-01-23 Thread Christopher Jones
I couldn't find it in mine either. When I posted, Mr. Voss sent me the file. Here it is, passed on to the list. I should say, though, that I was not completely happy with it. So I also got the cd-cover.dtx file from CTAN. Run latex on it to install. However, the docs for it are innacurate, I thi

Re: referentie

2001-01-22 Thread Christopher Jones
Not completely sure I understand, but here's a stab. A bibliography is not the same as a list of references, or a works cited. If I understand you, then you want a References page, which can be done by using BibTeX references. This works by your creating a database file containing author, titl

Re: reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Christopher Jones
I have that tool. But some pdf or ps files consist not of coded text but a bitmapped image. For instance, pdf and ps files which I download from journal databases are scanned images of journal pages. ps2ascii and pdftotext will not extract text from these files, since there is no ascii content to

reading text out of ps/pdf

2001-01-13 Thread Christopher Jones
This is a reach, I know. But in the hopes that there is something out there for me, I'll ask the question: is there anything which reads text out of a bitmaped pdf or ps file?

cdcover template missing?

2001-01-13 Thread Christopher Jones
I've heard it said on the list that there is a cdcover template included in the distribution. But I don't see it in my "templates" directory. So where do I go to get it?

future features

2000-12-19 Thread Christopher Jones
Are there plans in upcoming versions to support having documents open in multiple panes? Also, I tried having two LyX's running, but I didn't seem able to cut and paste between them. I knew that cut and paste doesn't work between LyX and other apps, but I thought it should work between LyX's. Gu

cut/copy-paste: blue underlining?

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Jones
When I cut/copy and paste between documents, the pasted text comes with a blue underlining. It doesn't show up in the output, but it is somewhat annoying to look at. What is being toggled, so that I can "untoggle" it?

Fwd: Re: more 1.1.6pre2 deadkeys

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Jones
Thanks. I'll be eagerly awaiting the fix :-) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: more 1.1.6pre2 deadkeys Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:33:26 +0200 From: Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 09:57:32AM -0600, Christopher Jones wrote: > Anyway, I

preventing the one-line runover

2000-12-08 Thread Christopher Jones
My paragraphs have a habit of running one or two lines over to the next page. This is especially unfortunate with block quotes, etc. Now, I know that I can prevent that in specific contexts using \nopagebreak, but is there a more "global" sollution, such that latex knows its ok if there are more l

achicago and jurabib

2000-12-04 Thread Christopher Jones
Ok, I'm playing around with jurabib. Problem is, what I liked (and kind of need) is the way achicago (frankenstein) provides "translator" and co. field entries. Doesn't look like jurabib does that. So is there any way I can get jurabib to handle all the ibid and footnoted citation stuff, and have

Re: citations in footnotes (continued)

2000-12-04 Thread Christopher Jones
On Mon, 04 Dec 2000, you wrote: > Hello, > > maybe jurabib is what you need (for law-students and humanities). Thanks so much!!! That's exactly what I need.

citations in footnotes (continued)

2000-12-03 Thread Christopher Jones
In a little more detail: I have been searching high and low, and all I find in any document on the web are polemics by people in the sciences against the citation styles used in the humanities (which give full citations in the footnotes, accompanied by ibid and such). So what about us philosopher

Chicago style citations in footnotes

2000-12-03 Thread Christopher Jones
Does anybody know of a bibtex package out there that has a cite command appropriate for footnotes, according to the Chicago style? I looked at frankenstein, but I only see cite commands for inline citations. I suppose the thing to do otherwise is to put some stuff in the preamble? But I don't kno

more 1.1.6pre2 deadkeys

2000-12-02 Thread Christopher Jones
Upgraded yesterday to the new version. Looks nice! Although, I am starting to miss the lyxrc. It was so elegant compared to shuffling through menus... Anyway, I have my keymap bound american, and when I go to type the :u sequence for an umlaut the cursor jumps ahead, just like it is supposed to,

Re: how to prevent a page break?

2000-11-19 Thread Christopher Jones
I don't have to do this every time a record gets added or dropped. On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, you wrote: > Christopher Jones wrote: > > > > I'd like latex not to split a paragraph environment at the end of a page. Zum > > Beispiel, I'd like the "address

how to prevent a page break?

2000-11-17 Thread Christopher Jones
I'd like latex not to split a paragraph environment at the end of a page. Zum Beispiel, I'd like the "address" environment, which has protected breaks separating lines of the address, not to break up the record.