Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Grahame Blackwood
n Sun, 24 Dec 2017, Grahame Blackwood wrote: > >> I don't use Lyx for invoices or any documents with calculations in them. >> Instead I use Latex usually (depending on what I am doing) with the letter >> class adapted for window envelopes and my header. Latex takes care of the &

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi Rich I don't use Lyx for invoices or any documents with calculations in them. Instead I use Latex usually (depending on what I am doing) with the letter class adapted for window envelopes and my header. Latex takes care of the typesetting and a program called Scrivener looks after the

Re: Using LyX for writing Internet RFCs

2012-05-07 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 04:54 PM, Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: from: Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com date: Mon, May 07 10:54 AM -05:00 2012 to: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org subject: Using LyX for writing Internet RFCs I love LyX. I want two things it doesn't have/do today:

Re: Using LyX for writing Internet RFCs

2012-05-07 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 04:54 PM, Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: from: Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com date: Mon, May 07 10:54 AM -05:00 2012 to: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org subject: Using LyX for writing Internet RFCs I love LyX. I want two things it doesn't have/do today:

Re: Using LyX for writing Internet RFCs

2012-05-07 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 04:54 PM, Nico Williams wrote: > from: Nico Williams > date: Mon, May 07 10:54 AM -05:00 2012 > to: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > subject: Using LyX for writing Internet RFCs > > I love LyX. I want two things it doesn't have/do

Re: Float figures and wrapping text

2010-09-16 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On 15/09/10 20:20, Grahame Blackwood wrote: Hi LyXers I'm producing a document that needs some graphics to enliven the text. I would also like the text to wrap round the graphics. However, as it isn't an academic document, the usual references, Figure 1, Figure 2 etc aren't needed

Re: Float figures and wrapping text

2010-09-16 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On 15/09/10 20:20, Grahame Blackwood wrote: Hi LyXers I'm producing a document that needs some graphics to enliven the text. I would also like the text to wrap round the graphics. However, as it isn't an academic document, the usual references, Figure 1, Figure 2 etc aren't needed

Re: Float figures and wrapping text

2010-09-16 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On 15/09/10 20:20, Grahame Blackwood wrote: Hi LyXers I'm producing a document that needs some graphics to enliven the text. I would also like the text to wrap round the graphics. However, as it isn't an academic document, the usual references, Figure 1, Figure 2 etc aren't needed

Float figures and wrapping text

2010-09-15 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi LyXers I'm producing a document that needs some graphics to enliven the text. I would also like the text to wrap round the graphics. However, as it isn't an academic document, the usual references, Figure 1, Figure 2 etc aren't needed in the finished pdf. Does anyone know if there is any way

Float figures and wrapping text

2010-09-15 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi LyXers I'm producing a document that needs some graphics to enliven the text. I would also like the text to wrap round the graphics. However, as it isn't an academic document, the usual references, Figure 1, Figure 2 etc aren't needed in the finished pdf. Does anyone know if there is any way

Float figures and wrapping text

2010-09-15 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi LyXers I'm producing a document that needs some graphics to enliven the text. I would also like the text to wrap round the graphics. However, as it isn't an academic document, the usual references, Figure 1, Figure 2 etc aren't needed in the finished pdf. Does anyone know if there is any way

Coloured section headings

2010-09-11 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi LyXers I would like to have coloured section and subsection headings for a document I am producing. I've tried the following document settings code from Uwe Stohr's reply (11March10) to a similar request and it works fine for numbered sections/subsections. My question is, how do I adapt it

Re: Coloured section headings [solved]

2010-09-11 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On 11/09/10 10:03, Grahame Blackwood wrote: Hi LyXers I would like to have coloured section and subsection headings for a document I am producing. I've tried the following document settings code from Uwe Stohr's reply (11March10) to a similar request and it works fine for numbered sections

Coloured section headings

2010-09-11 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi LyXers I would like to have coloured section and subsection headings for a document I am producing. I've tried the following document settings code from Uwe Stohr's reply (11March10) to a similar request and it works fine for numbered sections/subsections. My question is, how do I adapt it

Re: Coloured section headings [solved]

2010-09-11 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On 11/09/10 10:03, Grahame Blackwood wrote: Hi LyXers I would like to have coloured section and subsection headings for a document I am producing. I've tried the following document settings code from Uwe Stohr's reply (11March10) to a similar request and it works fine for numbered sections

Coloured section headings

2010-09-11 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi LyXers I would like to have coloured section and subsection headings for a document I am producing. I've tried the following document settings code from Uwe Stohr's reply (11March10) to a similar request and it works fine for numbered sections/subsections. My question is, how do I adapt it

Re: Coloured section headings [solved]

2010-09-11 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On 11/09/10 10:03, Grahame Blackwood wrote: Hi LyXers I would like to have coloured section and subsection headings for a document I am producing. I've tried the following document settings code from Uwe Stohr's reply (11March10) to a similar request and it works fine for numbered sections

Re: adding ConvTex to the LyX converters?

2010-02-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 13:00:35 Liviu Andronic wrote: Does anyone have experience with it? Hi Liviu I use it about once per month to convert a report created in Lyx to OpenOffice but I find it chokes on some of Lyx's formatting and I have to run a vim script to remove or alter the

Re: adding ConvTex to the LyX converters?

2010-02-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 13:00:35 Liviu Andronic wrote: Does anyone have experience with it? Hi Liviu I use it about once per month to convert a report created in Lyx to OpenOffice but I find it chokes on some of Lyx's formatting and I have to run a vim script to remove or alter the

Re: adding ConvTex to the LyX converters?

2010-02-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Wednesday 03 February 2010 13:00:35 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Does anyone have experience with it? Hi Liviu I use it about once per month to convert a report created in Lyx to OpenOffice but I find it chokes on some of Lyx's formatting and I have to run a vim script to remove or alter the

Re: Booklet headings

2008-04-02 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 07:33:21 G. Milde wrote: You could try the scaling factor box for the individual fonts (instead of the global document fontsize), however this will give wrong proportions as it will not increase the spacing accordingly. Hi Gunter Thanks for the tip. When I looked, the

Re: Booklet headings

2008-04-02 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 07:33:21 G. Milde wrote: You could try the scaling factor box for the individual fonts (instead of the global document fontsize), however this will give wrong proportions as it will not increase the spacing accordingly. Hi Gunter Thanks for the tip. When I looked, the

Re: Booklet headings

2008-04-02 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 07:33:21 G. Milde wrote: > You could try the scaling factor box for the individual fonts (instead of > the global document fontsize), however this will give wrong proportions as > it will not increase the spacing accordingly. Hi Gunter Thanks for the tip. When I looked,

Booklet headings

2008-03-31 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi All I printed a little booklet of reports this year in a5 style and using the booklet package. I set the font at size 12 but when I printed the booklet the font size shrank to the point where some readers would need a magnifying glass to read it. So I put an ERT \begin{large} in at the

Re: Booklet headings

2008-03-31 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Monday 31 March 2008 17:05:21 Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Grahame Blackwood wrote: Is there anyway to do this properly so that standard text and section/subsections are increased in size proportionally?    Documents - Settings - Fonts Hi Rich Thanks very much

Booklet headings

2008-03-31 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi All I printed a little booklet of reports this year in a5 style and using the booklet package. I set the font at size 12 but when I printed the booklet the font size shrank to the point where some readers would need a magnifying glass to read it. So I put an ERT \begin{large} in at the

Re: Booklet headings

2008-03-31 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Monday 31 March 2008 17:05:21 Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Grahame Blackwood wrote: Is there anyway to do this properly so that standard text and section/subsections are increased in size proportionally?    Documents - Settings - Fonts Hi Rich Thanks very much

Booklet headings

2008-03-31 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi All I printed a little booklet of reports this year in a5 style and using the booklet package. I set the font at size 12 but when I printed the booklet the font size shrank to the point where some readers would need a magnifying glass to read it. So I put an ERT \begin{large} in at the

Re: Booklet headings

2008-03-31 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Monday 31 March 2008 17:05:21 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Grahame Blackwood wrote: > > Is there anyway to do this properly so that standard text and > > section/subsections are increased in size proportionally? > >    Documents -> Settings -> Fonts

ConvTex

2007-09-28 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi All Does anyone use ConvTex to convert from LyX to OpenOffice via Latex? (see http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice) When I do this, I find that % signs in the .tex file (exported from LyX) are ignored when the file is converted to an OpenOffice .sdw file. Has anyone else found this

ConvTex

2007-09-28 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi All Does anyone use ConvTex to convert from LyX to OpenOffice via Latex? (see http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice) When I do this, I find that % signs in the .tex file (exported from LyX) are ignored when the file is converted to an OpenOffice .sdw file. Has anyone else found this

ConvTex

2007-09-28 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi All Does anyone use ConvTex to convert from LyX to OpenOffice via Latex? (see http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice) When I do this, I find that % signs in the .tex file (exported from LyX) are ignored when the file is converted to an OpenOffice .sdw file. Has anyone else found this

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Saturday 11 August 2007 19:06:49 Richard Heck wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. I agree with this. A spell checker highlighting in some way, anything it does not understand, is most distracting and too easily breaks the thread of thought. Much

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Saturday 11 August 2007 19:06:49 Richard Heck wrote: Rather, I think instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. I agree with this. A spell checker highlighting in some way, anything it does not understand, is most distracting and too easily breaks the thread of thought. Much

Re: On the fly spellcheck?

2007-08-11 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Saturday 11 August 2007 19:06:49 Richard Heck wrote: > Rather, I think > instant spellcheck distracts from the process of writing. I agree with this. A spell checker highlighting in some way, anything it does not understand, is most distracting and too easily breaks the thread of thought.

Re: Table column width

2007-07-04 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 21:11:02 Paul A. Rubin wrote: No problem.  Stop back here if 1.4.4 does the same (unlikely, but then I never saw this with 1.4.2). Hi Paul and others following this trail. I removed 1.4.2 and tried to install 1.4.4. It didn't install. However, I noticed that I had

Re: Table column width

2007-07-04 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 21:11:02 Paul A. Rubin wrote: No problem.  Stop back here if 1.4.4 does the same (unlikely, but then I never saw this with 1.4.2). Hi Paul and others following this trail. I removed 1.4.2 and tried to install 1.4.4. It didn't install. However, I noticed that I had

Re: Table column width

2007-07-04 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 21:11:02 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > No problem.  Stop back here if 1.4.4 does the same (unlikely, but then I > never saw this with 1.4.2). Hi Paul and others following this trail. I removed 1.4.2 and tried to install 1.4.4. It didn't install. However, I noticed that I had

Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi Steve, Paul and Uwe Thanks for your suggestions. Unfortunately I haven't had any success so far with them. Steve, pressing ENTER after setting the column width as 6cm still didn't work. Whatever I do in this dialogue box in relation to the fixing the width, ie clicking on the check box and

Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 15:02:49 Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can you post a small example file? Maybe there's something in the file causing a problem (doubtful, but you never know). /Paul Attached is a small table with three columns. No matter what I do in the table settings dialogue, the

Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:28:15 Paul A. Rubin wrote: open the LyX file in a text editor and change one of those zeros to, say, 2cm, when LyX opens the file is the column width retained? Hi Paul Thanks for trying, but even changing the table specifications with a text editor does nothing

Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi Steve, Paul and Uwe Thanks for your suggestions. Unfortunately I haven't had any success so far with them. Steve, pressing ENTER after setting the column width as 6cm still didn't work. Whatever I do in this dialogue box in relation to the fixing the width, ie clicking on the check box and

Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 15:02:49 Paul A. Rubin wrote: Can you post a small example file? Maybe there's something in the file causing a problem (doubtful, but you never know). /Paul Attached is a small table with three columns. No matter what I do in the table settings dialogue, the

Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:28:15 Paul A. Rubin wrote: open the LyX file in a text editor and change one of those zeros to, say, 2cm, when LyX opens the file is the column width retained? Hi Paul Thanks for trying, but even changing the table specifications with a text editor does nothing

Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi Steve, Paul and Uwe Thanks for your suggestions. Unfortunately I haven't had any success so far with them. Steve, pressing ENTER after setting the column width as 6cm still didn't work. Whatever I do in this dialogue box in relation to the fixing the width, ie clicking on the check box and

Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 15:02:49 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Can you post a small example file? Maybe there's something in the file > causing a problem (doubtful, but you never know). > > /Paul Attached is a small table with three columns. No matter what I do in the table settings dialogue, the

Re: Table column width

2007-07-03 Thread Grahame Blackwood
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 19:28:15 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > open the LyX file in a text editor and change one of > those zeros to, say, "2cm", when LyX opens the file is the column width > retained? Hi Paul Thanks for trying, but even changing the table specifications with a text editor does

Table column width

2007-07-02 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi I am trying to set the width of a column in a table, but no matter what I do, it refuses to work. I think I have followed the instructions in the manual, trying repeatedly with the menu EditTable Settings or right-clicking within the column and setting the Width to the required value, and

Table column width

2007-07-02 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi I am trying to set the width of a column in a table, but no matter what I do, it refuses to work. I think I have followed the instructions in the manual, trying repeatedly with the menu EditTable Settings or right-clicking within the column and setting the Width to the required value, and

Table column width

2007-07-02 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi I am trying to set the width of a column in a table, but no matter what I do, it refuses to work. I think I have followed the instructions in the manual, trying repeatedly with the menu Edit>Table Settings or right-clicking within the column and setting the Width to the required value,