Re: Lyx numbering equations

2015-03-15 Thread David A Case
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015, Robert Susmilch wrote: > > I have Googled a way to refer to numbered equations in text, such as > "See equation (3)" in Lyx but everything I read, whether from other > users or wikis, suggests labeling the already numbered equations and > then using the label to cross referen

Will there be a version 2.0.x that can import 2.1.0 files?

2014-05-29 Thread David A Case
In the past, there have been "final" releases of a series that are able to read files created by the "next" LyX format. Are there plans (and a estimated time) for a "2.0.8" release that can read 2.1 files? ...thanks...dave case

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

2012-01-10 Thread David A Case
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012, Wilfried wrote: > > Even at least one publisher of > scientific journals (I don't remember who) requests authors NOT to use > the new Word 2007 - 2010 equation editor but the old equation editor or > MathType. This is common in my field (chemistry): scientific journals ask f

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

2012-01-09 Thread David A Case
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote: > > I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing > lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well with "lots of math equation

Re: Lyx compile corrupt OpenDocument documents

2011-09-19 Thread David A Case
On 09/16/2011 11:27 AM, Kalisch Dominik P.H. wrote: > > > >I need to export my > >document, with a heavy use of formulasm tables and images, to word. I also need to do this, primarily for scientific journals that accept only ".doc" files (i.e. the older Word format). At least in my field (chemi

Re: sorting multiple references in itself

2009-06-03 Thread David A. Case
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: > > I need to sort my multiple references...my references are sorted = > > according to their occurence on the file and follows the order quiet = > > well but when I give a multiple reference, [21,1,3,7] can be = > > generated..but I want to sort this gr

Re: kpsewhich appears to require root permissions (Ubunutu 9.04) --FIXED

2009-04-28 Thread David A. Case
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009, David A. Case wrote: > I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root > permissions: e.g. "kpsewhich article.cls" returns nothins, but "sudo > kpsewhich article.cls" returns the correct path. Sorry for the false alarm--I

kpsewhich appears to require root permissions (Ubunutu 9.04)

2009-04-28 Thread David A. Case
I know this is a LaTeX (or Tex-live) question, but it keeps me from running LyX: I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root permissions: e.g. "kpsewhich article.cls" returns nothins, but "sudo kpsewhich article.cls" returns the correct path. Hence, LyX seems to work fine whe

Re: MS Word to LyX

2009-01-29 Thread David A. Case
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > So, it seems the only solution is word2tex -- it appears to > do the conversion better than GrindEQ. But it is hard > to judge from the trial version, and the real version is > quite expensive (and risky, since it seems support is > non-existent).

Re: Amazon Kindle Conversion from Lyx?

2008-11-18 Thread David A. Case
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008, Jonathan Kroner wrote: > > Amazon accepts only the following file formats for conversion for viewing on > Kindle: MS Word (.DOC),Structured HTML (.HTML, .HTM), .JPEG, .JPG , .GIF, > .PNG, and .BMP. It will not accept a pdf. Sounds like MS Word is the closest fit to your doc

Re: Someone uses my Bugzilla account

2008-11-05 Thread David A. Case
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: > i just tried to search out that old case and i found the name is OK now! so i > made new experiment in http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5429 in comment > 6 and my name was changed into David A. Case. i just wonder when bugzilla > swi

Re: Trying to get pdflatex to produce letter size page with outline fonts...

2008-05-02 Thread David A. Case
On Fri, May 02, 2008, snvv wrote: > You may try the geometry package. Then you may define the page in all > possible ways >From the users' perspective, this is what happens: 1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and Document->Page Margins is set to "default") is likely to

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-07 Thread David A. Case
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008, Oscar Lopez wrote: > > My colleague uses the windows version of lyx and I use the linux > version. I am quite satisfied with the current support of xfig at lyx > using external material. However, as far as I know, xfig only runs at linux > machines... Xfig runs fine und

Re: pdf output of boldsymbol math does not work

2008-03-03 Thread David A. Case
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Assuming I'm using Times, if I have to choose between a close match > between the math and text fonts or having bold symbols, I'll typically > take the bold symbols. I think the choice is between a good match between math and text, but (somewhat) infer

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

2008-02-22 Thread David A. Case
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008, David Hewitt wrote: > > > I have a bunch of display style equations with numbers and labels. > However, the numbers displayed by LyX are almost never right. Sometimes it > will open the file and each equation will be number '1', sometimes they'll > number by chapter, sometim

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread David A. Case
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008, Jorge Sampaio wrote: > I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a > colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. > > (converter to export to OpenOffice messes up considerably the equations in > the text. Not good yet) I've had good luck

Re: what is this: \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} and why does TexLive hate it?

2008-01-21 Thread David A. Case
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > The problem is all those darned foreigners with their accented > characters and Cyrillic/kanji/whatever symbols > > In LyX, go into Document -> Settings -> Language. You > have the language set as "English" (good choice there, fewer funny >

Re: lyx cannot display Greek symbol real time

2007-12-14 Thread David A. Case
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > Using a cygwin text editor (vim is ok, notepad is *not* ok) create the > file /etc/fonts/local.conf with the following 5 lines: > > > > > /usr/share/lyx/fonts > > > save the file and then issue the following command: > > fc-cache /usr/share

Compiling lyx 1.5 for cygwin?

2007-08-13 Thread David A. Case
Does anyone have information or experience about compiling LyX 1.5 for cygwin? I have really appreciated the efforts of Enrico Forestieri (and others?) who prepared distributions of LyX 1.4.x. I'm willing to spend some time compiling (or tyring to compile) it myself, but any advice or pointers wou

Re: LyX 1.4.4 does not start on CYGWIN

2007-07-26 Thread David A. Case
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007, Jens Nellesen wrote: > > after updating from LyX 1.4.3 to 1.4.4 under CYGWIN with the > cygwin-setup-util lyx does not start anymore but the prompt returns > immediately. > > The same behaviour shows up if I try to start with the option "-dbg" . Try typing "strace lyx-qtw

Re: LyX cannot entirely change the document language

2007-07-24 Thread David A. Case
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007, Paul Smith wrote: > > I have just noticed that the change of language is in > fact global. The problem shows up when one copies something from a > document written in a different language; then no language change can > be global. The obvious workaround is to change the langua

Re: Lyx to word or lyx to html (to word)

2007-06-03 Thread David A. Case
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007, Miki Dovrat wrote: > > How can I convert my lyx document to microsoft word Google is your friend here: the first hit for "convert latex to word" is: http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html If you have a significant number of mathematical equations, I have fo

Re: Why Lyx->Word?

2007-05-14 Thread David A. Case
On Mon, May 14, 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > > But hard as I rack my brains, I can't think of a reason to start a project in > LyX, and THEN convert it to MS Word. > As others have said, one doesn't always know where a manuscript will end up when you start writing. Or you may be working with a co

Re: Can LyX handle large files ?

2006-11-06 Thread David A. Case
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 possible (and expected) to see much faster behavior. On similar

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

2006-05-24 Thread David A. Case
On Wed, May 24, 2006, Jan Peters wrote: > 2) Why is it still a less pleasant experience to edit an equation in > LyX than in either MathType (oh horror) or Scientific Workplace? I think this must depend either on what you are most familiar with, or on what you expect. For me, creating and editin

Re: Automatic formatting of a particular word?

2006-02-22 Thread David A. Case
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > That's like the user calling the help desk because she cannot find the > > "any" key on her keyboard. "But the instructions say to press any key!" > > I keep telling people that the 'any key' is the '5' on the numeric keys > block. It works and has

Re: New Windows version

2006-01-15 Thread David A. Case
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > However I succeeded in building a native version of both Qt and LyX > using the cygwin tools. When using the switch -mno-cygwin, the cygwin > compilers turn into mingw compilers. Have you also tried to build a cygwin version? Since cygwin alrea

Re: bug in reconfigure (windows port)

2004-10-14 Thread David A. Case
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004, Juan Luis Chulilla wrote: > I was not able to add any more latex class to lyx using the unix > procedure (add class to tetex, add .layout file to lyx, Edit/ > Reconfigure. Finally today I have found that executing configure.bat > and then configure in a console of windows, ly

Re: PDF margin growth

2004-05-19 Thread David A. Case
On Wed, May 19, 2004, Kent Kostuk wrote: > I have noticed that when I create a PDF and thend print it the margins > are larger (and consequently the text is smaller) than if I printed the > document directly. I don't have this problem when I create and then > print a PS file. This is not stri

Re: Uninstalling LyX

2003-12-27 Thread David A. Case
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003, R. C. Gonzalez wrote: > > > Does anyone in the LyX Users Group know how to uninstall LyX in the > Windows environment? There is really nothing to uninstall (i.e. no Registry entries or the like). You can just delete your directory and re-install, or move everything to a ne

Re: Switching from the Math panel window to the document window

2003-12-16 Thread David A. Case
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Under Linux (at least) use a window manager which allows "sloppy focus" > with the mouse... > > I'm unaware of what those on the dark side can do along this vein. ;-) Microsoft offers an equivalent functionality in their TweakUI series -- the foc

Re: General compat question

2003-08-28 Thread David A. Case
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: > I would like to hear what lyx users (or latex users for that matter) do > when a particular journal requires manuscripts be submitted as Microsoft > Word documents. I have tried latex2rtf, but the result leaves so much > additional re-formatting work

Re: Fw: How to use images?

2003-08-14 Thread David A. Case
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003, Philipp Bönisch wrote: [Using LyX for Windows:] > . The problem is, when I > >> want to see the DVI, the system asks me, which programm I want to > >> use to run the convertDefault.sh. It should not be necessary to install cygwin; Ruurd distributes an "sh.exe" shell that i

Re: Lyx-Qt 1.3.2 cannot import Tex

2003-08-14 Thread David A. Case
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003, Michael Logies wrote: > Win XP Prof, Miketex 2.3, Lyx-Qt 1.3.2. > > when I export my *.lyx as *.tex and import it again, it cannot be openend: > > Cannot convert file > Error while executing > reLyx -f "foo.tex" > First, check the reLyx.bat file that Ruurd provides, in th

Re: location of bibtex bst files

2003-07-27 Thread David A. Case
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003, Philip A. Viton wrote: > > a. after changing lyx's startup directory away from its bin folder, Lyx > won't start at all. > > Can anyone confirm that they can get either of these to work on > win32-LyX-1.3.2-QT? Otherwise, maybe it should be considered a bug or two? > I h

Re: problem about math formula display

2003-06-16 Thread David A. Case
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003, Matej Cepl wrote: > > Couldn't we make an agreement, that there will be only one reply: read > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/9472. I think one could do better than the above response, which is no more than the following: have you installed (for the

Re: installing LyX on cygwin (addendum)

2003-03-10 Thread David A. Case
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003, David A. Case wrote: > here is a thumbnail sketch of what to do for a "more simple" install, .oops...I forgot to have the user start the X-window manager: > > d. Start a cygwin shell (double-click on the "cygwin" icon) and type "lyx &am

installing LyX on cygwin

2003-03-10 Thread David A. Case
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003, a user wrote: > But I must say, > I wonder how a person with no IT programming > experience could install LyX on Windows; it > is too difficult I think. In defense of cygwin, I think it's not as difficult as the web pages might lead one to believe. If you are willing to w

what is "native" about native windows programs?

2003-01-29 Thread David A. Case
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003, Matej Cepl wrote: > > It is called fpTeX and it is just a native port of tetex to > Windows Also, on the same day, another user wrote: > This is not a solution to your problem but you might want to try out the > native Win32 version at:. Is this distinction between

Re: Antwort: Re: lyx on cygwin

2003-01-29 Thread David A. Case
sitive. Plus, if there are tex-related problems (like running out of memory), the fact that more people (around here, anyway) use tetex than other distributions is a plus. ..dac -- ====== David A. Case | e-mail:

Re: LyX2XXX with math???

2003-01-16 Thread David A. Case
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003, Uwe Brauer wrote: > > For some time I am looking for converts > LaTeX2XXX with math, where XXX should be some format which a word > processor such as OO (preferred) can read. > > Curiously enough, the other direction XXX2latex, seems easier, there > is Word2tex, writer2late

Re: lyx for windows: Why not the cygwin tetex?

2002-12-20 Thread David A. Case
re is no reason to avoid the native cygwin tetex package. I have been using it with no problems for a year or more. ..dac -- ========== David A. Case | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Molecular Biology, TPC15

Re: problem with pstricks and PDF

2002-08-15 Thread David A. Case
(should be in /usr/X11R6/bin). .hope this helps...dac -- ====== David A. Case | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Molecular Biology, TPC15 | fax: +1-858-784-8896 The Scripps Research Institute| ph