Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-09 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, Similar to another thread currently underway, I'd like to find out some of the important keyboard shortcuts for lyx on OS X (Leopard). What for example is insert footnote? What is insert citation? I would have expected these to be Command i for insert and f for footnote or c for

Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-09 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, Similar to another thread currently underway, I'd like to find out some of the important keyboard shortcuts for lyx on OS X (Leopard). What for example is insert footnote? What is insert citation? I would have expected these to be Command i for insert and f for footnote or c for

Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac

2008-01-09 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, Similar to another thread currently underway, I'd like to find out some of the important keyboard shortcuts for lyx on OS X (Leopard). What for example is "insert footnote"? What is "insert citation"? I would have expected these to be "Command i" for insert and "f" for footnote

locale or encoding difficulty, I'm not sure which

2007-10-14 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Right, I've spent about 3 hours trying to sort this out, without success, so it's time to call for help. I'm getting the following message when running pdflatex: Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could

locale or encoding difficulty, I'm not sure which

2007-10-14 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Right, I've spent about 3 hours trying to sort this out, without success, so it's time to call for help. I'm getting the following message when running pdflatex: Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could

locale or encoding difficulty, I'm not sure which

2007-10-14 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Right, I've spent about 3 hours trying to sort this out, without success, so it's time to call for help. I'm getting the following message when running pdflatex: "Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could

Re: Tweaking the bibliography environment in Memoir class

2007-09-23 Thread Declan O'Byrne
It would be great to be able to use chicago style with jurabib, or similar. Is there any chance of somebody setting this up? The closest I got was by including the following in the preamble:

Re: Tweaking the bibliography environment in Memoir class

2007-09-23 Thread Declan O'Byrne
It would be great to be able to use chicago style with jurabib, or similar. Is there any chance of somebody setting this up? The closest I got was by including the following in the preamble:

Re: Tweaking the bibliography environment in Memoir class

2007-09-23 Thread Declan O'Byrne
It would be great to be able to use chicago style with jurabib, or similar. Is there any chance of somebody setting this up? The closest I got was by including the following in the preamble:

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Silly question: Are you using Evince? If so, try acroread. I have found that Evince sometimes gives strange fuzzyness. For what it's worth, I don't find the same problem with Evince on Gutsy. Apologies if this is irrelevant. Declan

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Silly question: Are you using Evince? If so, try acroread. I have found that Evince sometimes gives strange fuzzyness. For what it's worth, I don't find the same problem with Evince on Gutsy. Apologies if this is irrelevant. Declan

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Silly question: Are you using Evince? If so, try acroread. I have found that Evince sometimes gives strange fuzzyness. For what it's worth, I don't find the same problem with Evince on Gutsy. Apologies if this is irrelevant. Declan

Re: What is this? latex error iso-8859-7.def

2007-09-06 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Thanks for all of these comments. Actually, I was able to resolve the issue by the inelegant means of changing 2 or 3 Greek words in the text back to transliterations. This is a temporary measure, but it makes the document work again. What wasn't clear to me from the message was that it related to

Re: What is this? latex error iso-8859-7.def

2007-09-06 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Thanks for all of these comments. Actually, I was able to resolve the issue by the inelegant means of changing 2 or 3 Greek words in the text back to transliterations. This is a temporary measure, but it makes the document work again. What wasn't clear to me from the message was that it related to

Re: What is this? latex error iso-8859-7.def

2007-09-06 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Thanks for all of these comments. Actually, I was able to resolve the issue by the inelegant means of changing 2 or 3 Greek words in the text back to transliterations. This is a temporary measure, but it makes the document work again. What wasn't clear to me from the message was that it related to

What is this? latex error iso-8859-7.def

2007-09-03 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I have this error, which prevents my document from doing anything. The same document worked fine with lyx 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.04. Now I'm running Ubuntu 7.10. I wonder if the problem is related to texlive, and whether there is some package I should add? Thanks for any pointers, Declan

What is this? latex error iso-8859-7.def

2007-09-03 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I have this error, which prevents my document from doing anything. The same document worked fine with lyx 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.04. Now I'm running Ubuntu 7.10. I wonder if the problem is related to texlive, and whether there is some package I should add? Thanks for any pointers, Declan

What is this? latex error iso-8859-7.def

2007-09-03 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I have this error, which prevents my document from doing anything. The same document worked fine with lyx 1.5.1 on Ubuntu 7.04. Now I'm running Ubuntu 7.10. I wonder if the problem is related to texlive, and whether there is some package I should add? Thanks for any pointers, Declan

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
A related idea, perhaps less controverted, might be a frontend for citation styles. Those of us who are required by universities to use particular styles that may differ in one or two details from the readily available styles could perhaps use a little programme for making such adjustments. It

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Typhoon, I was thinking of a user-friendly way of doing this. I'm not sure that what you mention is user-friendly. The user I am thinking of is the poor technically challenged one, not the programmer one. Steve suggested compiling a list of variables. That's an interesting question. I'm sure I

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
A related idea, perhaps less controverted, might be a frontend for citation styles. Those of us who are required by universities to use particular styles that may differ in one or two details from the readily available styles could perhaps use a little programme for making such adjustments. It

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Typhoon, I was thinking of a user-friendly way of doing this. I'm not sure that what you mention is user-friendly. The user I am thinking of is the poor technically challenged one, not the programmer one. Steve suggested compiling a list of variables. That's an interesting question. I'm sure I

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
A related idea, perhaps less controverted, might be a frontend for citation styles. Those of us who are required by universities to use particular styles that may differ in one or two details from the readily available styles could perhaps use a little programme for making such adjustments. It

Re: Template based style builder tools?

2007-07-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Typhoon, I was thinking of a user-friendly way of doing this. I'm not sure that what you mention is user-friendly. The "user" I am thinking of is the poor technically challenged one, not the programmer one. Steve suggested compiling a list of variables. That's an interesting question. I'm sure I

Footnotes in Greek

2007-01-25 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I've been trying to get a way to insert some greek text into a document. Having installed the relevant bits from texlive, I tried putting \usepackage[greek,british]{babel} into the preamble. This changes the whole document into greek. If I place the ERT \selectlanguage{british} before

Footnotes in Greek

2007-01-25 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I've been trying to get a way to insert some greek text into a document. Having installed the relevant bits from texlive, I tried putting \usepackage[greek,british]{babel} into the preamble. This changes the whole document into greek. If I place the ERT \selectlanguage{british} before

Footnotes in Greek

2007-01-25 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I've been trying to get a way to insert some greek text into a document. Having installed the relevant bits from texlive, I tried putting \usepackage[greek,british]{babel} into the preamble. This changes the whole document into greek. If I place the ERT \selectlanguage{british} before

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-18 Thread Declan O'Byrne
There's an Ubuntu derivative called Linuxmint. For some reason it upgraded to Lyx 1.4.3 from 1.4.2 some days before ubuntu itself did. In general this distro appears very solid. Declan

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-18 Thread Declan O'Byrne
There's an Ubuntu derivative called Linuxmint. For some reason it upgraded to Lyx 1.4.3 from 1.4.2 some days before ubuntu itself did. In general this distro appears very solid. Declan

Re: LyX on Debian or Ubuntu

2006-12-18 Thread Declan O'Byrne
There's an Ubuntu derivative called Linuxmint. For some reason it upgraded to Lyx 1.4.3 from 1.4.2 some days before ubuntu itself did. In general this distro appears very solid. Declan

\bibhowcited problem

2006-10-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I'm getting this error. Undefined Control Sequence: {\bibhowcited} \jbdoitem \bibAnnoteFile {Cof2001} The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox').

\bibhowcited problem

2006-10-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I'm getting this error. Undefined Control Sequence: {\bibhowcited} \jbdoitem \bibAnnoteFile {Cof2001} The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox').

\bibhowcited problem

2006-10-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I'm getting this error. Undefined Control Sequence: {\bibhowcited} \jbdoitem \bibAnnoteFile {Cof2001} The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox').

View menu or Document menu

2006-09-29 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I'm not sure where to send the following (possibly useless) observation. It relates to the menu layout in lyx 1.4.x. If it's better sent to another list, which one is that? Even though I now know that I should switch between open documents using the View menu, rather than the Document

View menu or Document menu

2006-09-29 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I'm not sure where to send the following (possibly useless) observation. It relates to the menu layout in lyx 1.4.x. If it's better sent to another list, which one is that? Even though I now know that I should switch between open documents using the View menu, rather than the Document

View menu or Document menu

2006-09-29 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I'm not sure where to send the following (possibly useless) observation. It relates to the menu layout in lyx 1.4.x. If it's better sent to another list, which one is that? Even though I now know that I should switch between open documents using the View menu, rather than the Document

Re: copy and paste does not work well

2006-09-28 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Or, if you don't have a middle mouse button, CTRL-SHIFT V. You'll see in the Edit menu that lyx distinguishes between pasting from lyx and pasting from external sources. Declan

Re: copy and paste does not work well

2006-09-28 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Or, if you don't have a middle mouse button, CTRL-SHIFT V. You'll see in the Edit menu that lyx distinguishes between pasting from lyx and pasting from external sources. Declan

Re: copy and paste does not work well

2006-09-28 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Or, if you don't have a middle mouse button, CTRL-SHIFT V. You'll see in the Edit menu that lyx distinguishes between pasting from lyx and pasting from external sources. Declan

Italics in bibtex record

2006-06-25 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I'm using pybliographic to manage bibliography. Some titles I have quote book titles, and those words should be italicised. Is there any way to italicise these words either manually, or to mark those words as a book title (in such a way that jurabib might be coaxed to put them in italics)?

Italics in bibtex record

2006-06-25 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I'm using pybliographic to manage bibliography. Some titles I have quote book titles, and those words should be italicised. Is there any way to italicise these words either manually, or to mark those words as a book title (in such a way that jurabib might be coaxed to put them in italics)?

Italics in bibtex record

2006-06-25 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I'm using pybliographic to manage bibliography. Some titles I have quote book titles, and those words should be italicised. Is there any way to italicise these words either manually, or to mark those words as a book title (in such a way that jurabib might be coaxed to put them in italics)?

Suse 10.1

2006-05-23 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I've been to the binaries page linked from the lyx.org page, but I can't quite understand if the rpms for lyx 1.4.1 there work on Suse 10.1. Do they? Thanks, Declan

Suse 10.1

2006-05-23 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I've been to the binaries page linked from the lyx.org page, but I can't quite understand if the rpms for lyx 1.4.1 there work on Suse 10.1. Do they? Thanks, Declan

Suse 10.1

2006-05-23 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I've been to the binaries page linked from the lyx.org page, but I can't quite understand if the rpms for lyx 1.4.1 there work on Suse 10.1. Do they? Thanks, Declan

Re: pushing references to LyX with lyxpipe

2006-05-02 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Regarding lyx pipes and all the rest is there any easier way to use \footcite than via ERT? Pybliographer doesn't distinguish \cite from \footcite. Do any bibtex frontends? Thanks, Declan

Re: pushing references to LyX with lyxpipe

2006-05-02 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Regarding lyx pipes and all the rest is there any easier way to use \footcite than via ERT? Pybliographer doesn't distinguish \cite from \footcite. Do any bibtex frontends? Thanks, Declan

Re: pushing references to LyX with lyxpipe

2006-05-02 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Regarding lyx pipes and all the rest is there any easier way to use \footcite than via ERT? Pybliographer doesn't distinguish \cite from \footcite. Do any bibtex frontends? Thanks, Declan

Re: LyX 1.4.1 is released

2006-04-13 Thread Declan O'Byrne
On the Ubuntu version: Any simple way to make this work on Dapper? It'd be great in fact if there was either a klik version of lyx (which would be pretty gigantic, but it'd be very nice), or if there could be additional lyx repositories for ubuntu (or debian), as they have for scribus, so that

Re: LyX 1.4.1 is released

2006-04-13 Thread Declan O'Byrne
On the Ubuntu version: Any simple way to make this work on Dapper? It'd be great in fact if there was either a klik version of lyx (which would be pretty gigantic, but it'd be very nice), or if there could be additional lyx repositories for ubuntu (or debian), as they have for scribus, so that

Re: LyX 1.4.1 is released

2006-04-13 Thread Declan O'Byrne
On the Ubuntu version: Any simple way to make this work on Dapper? It'd be great in fact if there was either a klik version of lyx (which would be pretty gigantic, but it'd be very nice), or if there could be additional lyx repositories for ubuntu (or debian), as they have for scribus, so that

Hyphenation talk

2006-04-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, Could anyone offer me a brief introduction to hyphenation in lyx. In practice, I'm getting un-hyphenated documents, and I'm trying to understand why. Are the rules of hyphenation based on some package that I haven't invoked? Where do I go to understand what's wrong? I don't see anything

No hyphenation at all: what's going on?

2006-04-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I'm not getting any hyphenation at all. The language is set to English, and I've tried going from aspell to ispell, and to British etc. But to no avail. So, I started another document for the sole purposes of testing, and filled it with some nonsense. Only default options: the same

Hyphenation talk

2006-04-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, Could anyone offer me a brief introduction to hyphenation in lyx. In practice, I'm getting un-hyphenated documents, and I'm trying to understand why. Are the rules of hyphenation based on some package that I haven't invoked? Where do I go to understand what's wrong? I don't see anything

No hyphenation at all: what's going on?

2006-04-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I'm not getting any hyphenation at all. The language is set to English, and I've tried going from aspell to ispell, and to British etc. But to no avail. So, I started another document for the sole purposes of testing, and filled it with some nonsense. Only default options: the same

Hyphenation talk

2006-04-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, Could anyone offer me a brief introduction to hyphenation in lyx. In practice, I'm getting un-hyphenated documents, and I'm trying to understand why. Are the rules of hyphenation based on some package that I haven't invoked? Where do I go to understand what's wrong? I don't see anything

No hyphenation at all: what's going on?

2006-04-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I'm not getting any hyphenation at all. The language is set to English, and I've tried going from aspell to ispell, and to British etc. But to no avail. So, I started another document for the sole purposes of testing, and filled it with some nonsense. Only default options: the same

Re: Positioning graphics in beamer

2006-02-02 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Thanks for these suggestions. I'm looking forward to trying them out, as soon as I can. Oh, and I reverted to Kubuntu on the laptop, so I now have beamer available to lyx. Thanks again, Declan

Re: Positioning graphics in beamer

2006-02-02 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Thanks for these suggestions. I'm looking forward to trying them out, as soon as I can. Oh, and I reverted to Kubuntu on the laptop, so I now have beamer available to lyx. Thanks again, Declan

Re: Positioning graphics in beamer

2006-02-02 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Thanks for these suggestions. I'm looking forward to trying them out, as soon as I can. Oh, and I reverted to Kubuntu on the laptop, so I now have beamer available to lyx. Thanks again, Declan

Positioning graphics in beamer

2006-02-01 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I'm almost entirely illiterate in matters latex. For example, I don't even know how to install beamer for lyx on Suse 10.0. That said, I would be delighted to reduce this ignorance. I'm looking for easy instructions on an easy task (I suppose, and hope that it is an easy task). I've been

Re: Positioning graphics in beamer

2006-02-01 Thread Declan O'Byrne
again, Declan On 2/1/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Declan O'Byrne wrote: One thing I cannot do, and I've spent quite a few hours trying, is position imported graphics within a slide. A picture is less than helpful when it covers the slide's text. I've tried importing as jpeg

Positioning graphics in beamer

2006-02-01 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I'm almost entirely illiterate in matters latex. For example, I don't even know how to install beamer for lyx on Suse 10.0. That said, I would be delighted to reduce this ignorance. I'm looking for easy instructions on an easy task (I suppose, and hope that it is an easy task). I've been

Re: Positioning graphics in beamer

2006-02-01 Thread Declan O'Byrne
again, Declan On 2/1/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Declan O'Byrne wrote: One thing I cannot do, and I've spent quite a few hours trying, is position imported graphics within a slide. A picture is less than helpful when it covers the slide's text. I've tried importing as jpeg

Positioning graphics in beamer

2006-02-01 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Hi all, I'm almost entirely illiterate in matters latex. For example, I don't even know how to install beamer for lyx on Suse 10.0. That said, I would be delighted to reduce this ignorance. I'm looking for easy instructions on an easy task (I suppose, and hope that it is an easy task). I've been

Re: Positioning graphics in beamer

2006-02-01 Thread Declan O'Byrne
let me choose "right". Thanks again, Declan On 2/1/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Declan O'Byrne wrote: > > > One thing I cannot do, and I've spent quite a few hours trying, is > position > > imported graphics within a slide. A picture is less tha

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-08 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I myself have recently suspended use of lyx, after at least 3 months of daily use. I was running it on linux, and then when I needed to use Windows on a daily basis, I managed to get it installed there. What discouraged me was not the fact that I hadn't acquired the lyx mentality, but rather that

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-08 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I myself have recently suspended use of lyx, after at least 3 months of daily use. I was running it on linux, and then when I needed to use Windows on a daily basis, I managed to get it installed there. What discouraged me was not the fact that I hadn't acquired the lyx mentality, but rather that

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

2005-10-08 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I myself have recently suspended use of lyx, after at least 3 months of daily use. I was running it on linux, and then when I needed to use Windows on a daily basis, I managed to get it installed there. What discouraged me was not the fact that I hadn't acquired the lyx mentality, but rather that

close footnote shortcut

2005-08-05 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I'm not a great lover of the mouse. So, I open the footnote box with Alt+i f. Is there a keyboard method of closing that box again, does anyone know? Thanks, Declan

close footnote shortcut

2005-08-05 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I'm not a great lover of the mouse. So, I open the footnote box with Alt+i f. Is there a keyboard method of closing that box again, does anyone know? Thanks, Declan

close footnote shortcut

2005-08-05 Thread Declan O'Byrne
I'm not a great lover of the mouse. So, I open the footnote box with Alt+i > f. Is there a keyboard method of closing that box again, does anyone know? Thanks, Declan

Re: Environment menu problem

2005-06-14 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Thanks Gunter, I have lyx 1.3.4 running on ubuntu hoary. Anyway, I'm less concerned about this problem now, since some drew my attention offlist to the Alt-p 0123 etc. option. That's much quicker than using the menu anyway. So I'm not so worried about the menu at the moment. Now, I'm trying

Re: Environment menu problem

2005-06-14 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Thanks Gunter, I have lyx 1.3.4 running on ubuntu hoary. Anyway, I'm less concerned about this problem now, since some drew my attention offlist to the Alt-p 0123 etc. option. That's much quicker than using the menu anyway. So I'm not so worried about the menu at the moment. Now, I'm trying

Re: Environment menu problem

2005-06-14 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Thanks Gunter, I have lyx 1.3.4 running on ubuntu hoary. Anyway, I'm less concerned about this problem now, since some drew my attention offlist to the Alt-p 0123 etc. option. That's much quicker than using the menu anyway. So I'm not so worried about the menu at the moment. Now, I'm trying

Environment menu problem

2005-06-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Greetings from a would-be Lyx user, I have a little problem which could stop me using what appears to be a wonderful program (lyx). It is that the environment menu often does not work for me. Just to confirm that: I bring the cursor to above the menu, and left-click and nothing happens. In fact,

Environment menu problem

2005-06-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Greetings from a would-be Lyx user, I have a little problem which could stop me using what appears to be a wonderful program (lyx). It is that the environment menu often does not work for me. Just to confirm that: I bring the cursor to above the menu, and left-click and nothing happens. In fact,

Environment menu problem

2005-06-10 Thread Declan O'Byrne
Greetings from a would-be Lyx user, I have a little problem which could stop me using what appears to be a wonderful program (lyx). It is that the environment menu often does not work for me. Just to confirm that: I bring the cursor to above the menu, and left-click and nothing happens. In fact,